secede

1. 1.

   withdraw from an organization or communion

   “After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away”

   Synonymssplinterbreak away

   Broaderseparate

Other forms of secede

past tense

seceded·

present participle

seceding·

third person

secedes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about secede

What does secede mean?

secede means "withdraw from an organization or communion".

How many syllables are in secede?

secede has 2 syllables: se-cede. The stress falls on "cede". In IPA it is /sɪˈsid/.

What is another word for secede?

Close synonyms include splinter, break away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is secede a common word?

secede is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with secede?

19 words rhyme with secede. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.