0 present participle of secede --
1 to become independent of a country or area of government: --
Some seceding southern states incorporated the motif of a white star on a blue field into new state flags.
The gills have an adnate or adnexed attachment to the stem, which later becomes seceding (pulled away from the stem).
The gills are adnexed or sinuate, seceding in maturity.
State militias in the seceding states occupied federal forts and confiscated the contents of federal arsenals.
We have imposed high duties on our commerce at the very moment the seceding states are inviting commerce to their ports by low duties.
It was reported that seceding congregations had a combined annual income of 1 million.
As his term came to an end, southern states had begun seceding from the union.
They are at first slightly decurrent, often seceding.
