0 past simple and past participle of secede
1 to become independent of a country or area of government:
In this article attention is focused exclusively on the non-southern states; the eleven states that seceded after the 1860 election are omitted from the analysis.
In fact, they have not seceded because they could not, and now after 200 years they do not want to.
Would that part-seceding district council be allowed to speak and vote on matters on which it had partly seceded?
I do not believe that we, in this century, at any rate, have unilaterally seceded from any international treaty.
If a district council seceded, there would be greater accountability.
That has not happened: not a single metropolitan district has seceded.
Biafra has seceded from a federation of incompatible tribal units.
One or two, perhaps, have seceded.
