From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsecedese‧cede /sɪˈsiːd/ verb [intransitive] formal SSOif a country or state secedes from another country, it officially stops being part of it and becomes independent OPP accedesecede from By 1861,11 states had seceded from the Union.→ See Verb table
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secede• In 2001, Chechens will be permitted to vote to secede.• With Obote making inroads into its power, Buganda attempts to secede.• Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.• It was no wonder that from time to time engineering faculty had pro-posed that the school secede from the college.• The Ibos seceded in 1967 as the state of Biafra, prompting a war that left 1 million people dead.• In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society, but it did not secede until 1898.secede from• Quebec voted on seceding from Canada.Origin secede (1700-1800) Latin secedere “to go apart”, from cedere “to go” 