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Date: 1700-1800
Language: Latin
Origin: secedere 'to go apart', from cedere 'to go'

secede

 verb
     
Related topics: Organizations
se‧cede [intransitive] formal
SSO if a country or state secedes from another country, it officially stops being part of it and becomes independent
secede from
By 1861, 11 states had seceded from the Union.
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