0 past simple and past participle of secede --
1 to become independent of a country or area of government: --
Those worlds eventually seceded, provoking a civil war.
Similar groups in several villages seceded at the same time.
In 1913, the club seceded to rugby league, although after a few years returned to rugby union.
When the southern states seceded in 1860-61, they relied on the compact theory to justify secession.
With the start of civil war, economic and transportation ties were broken, resulting in shortage of most parts coming from the two seceded republics.
There, the progressive elements in the community seceded from the conservative majority in 1861, seeking to administer synagogue reforms.
The concerned religious organisations usually refuse to administer rites of passage, such as marriages and burials of (former) members who had seceded.
One or two, perhaps, have seceded.
