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verb-intransitive. To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance.

v. To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.

v. To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.

verb-intransitive. To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

To go apart; retire; withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; separate one's self from others or from some association; specifically, to withdraw from a political or religious organization: as, certain ministers seceded from the Church of Scotland about the year 1733; certain of the United States of America attempted to secede and form an independent government in 1860–61.

v. withdraw from an organization or communion

"With any luck, maybe those Southerners will follow Rick Perry and once again secede from the Union ..."

seceded    secedes    seceding   

break    separate    split up    split    part    breakup   

secession    seceder   

seceded    seceding   

retire    withdraw    apostatize   

Aristide    Bede    Ede    Gilead    Mead    Meade    Read    Reed    Reid    Sinead