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 ● 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 ● Jan. 27, 2010
"You are confident, then, Sir, that fifteen States will secede?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
The Priests and Nobles will secede, the nation will remain in place, and, with the King, will do its own business.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
It has been intimated here that Maryland will secede unless she secures these guarantees.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
