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Verb: secede  si'seed
  1. Withdraw from an organization or communion
    "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics seceded";
    - splinter, break away

Derived forms: seceding, secedes, seceded

Type of: break, break up, part, separate, split, split up

Encyclopedia: Secede