secede
verb (used without object)
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
seceding
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present participleof secede.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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To pay the soldiers, the seceding government and its president, Jefferson Davis, printed reams of Confederate dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
South Sudan is an oil-rich nation that became the world's newest country in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
“Texas has talked about seceding for a long time,” Ms. Haley said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
In the fourth and third centuries BCE, plebeians won more concessions by again seceding from the patrician state.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
