secede
verb (used without object)
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
will secede
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future tenseof secede.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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There is no danger that America’s poor neighborhoods will secede from the United States.
From Slate ā Jul. 3, 2014
January 25, 2010 7:42 am Link Is it true that New Orleans will secede from the US and become a departement of Haiti, merely to improve its access to reconstruction aid?
From New York Times ā Jan. 27, 2010
If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
But it is quite another thing for the Irish legislators to say, "Unless you do this or that, we will secede from the Union," which Ireland could not do without war and revolution.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders by John Lord
"You are confident, then, Sir, that fifteen States will secede?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
