secede
Example Sentences
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The address issue has long been contentious in artsy Carmel-by-the-Sea, where residents once threatened to secede from California if they were forced to number their homes.
From Los Angeles Times
“Secession means the Southerners are breaking away, or seceding, from our present Union of thirty-three states to form their own confederacy of sorts.”
From Literature
To pay the soldiers, the seceding government and its president, Jefferson Davis, printed reams of Confederate dollars.
In early 1861, Clay was in Washington, D.C., where he organized a volunteer company to help defend the city against attack from seceding states.
South Sudan, the world's newest nation, gained independence in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
