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say it: si-SEED
secede is a verb meaning "withdraw from an organization or communion". It carries one recorded sense.
withdraw from an organization or communion
“After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for secede come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.