Secede

Definition: Secede

Secede

Verb

1. Withdraw from an organization or communion.

Date "secede" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Note: Secede \Se"cede"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Seceded; present participle verb or noun Seceding.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Secede

Synonyms: break away (v), splinter (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disobedience	Turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike; (resist); rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
Dissent	Secede; recant.
Relinquishment	Verb: relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch; go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave, quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate; (resign).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Secede

English words defined with "secede": Seceded, Seceding. (references)

Etymologies containing "secede": Secess. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Léopold Senghor standing with group of men, who propose to secede from the Mali Federation].Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	St. Kitts and Nevis	Under certain specified conditions, it may secede from the federation. (references)
	Armenia	In 1988, the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, voted to secede and join Armenia. (references)
	Kiribati	A major source of conflict has been the protracted bid by the residents of Banaban Island to secede and have their island placed under the protection of Fiji. (references)
Human Rights	India	The proclaimed objective of many of these groups is to secede from the country, creating new, independent nations. (references)
	Indonesia	The courts found all guilty of rebellion, attempting to secede from the State of Indonesia, and other lesser offenses, and sentenced them to terms of imprisonment ranging from 1 to 4 years. (references)
Political Economy	Saint Kitts and Nevis	The Constitution provides the smaller island of Nevis considerable self-government under a premier, as well as the right to secede from the Federation in accordance with certain enumerated procedures. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Secede" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.08% of the time. "Secede" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	95.08%	58	44,427
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.92%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	61	N/A

Expression using "secede": secede from smth.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "secede"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

Albanian		shkëputem (break loose, disunite, separate, turn out), ndahem (be divided, bust up, disunite, fall into, farewell, split up), largohem (backdown, backtrack, depart, evacuate, get along, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, make oneself scarce, move out, recede, retire, run away, run off, subside, take away, turn out, veer). (various references)

Arabic		‏إنسحب من تنظيم. (various references)

Czech		vystoupit (alight, disembark, get down, get off, get out, get out of, get out(of), remount, stand up, step off), odtrhnout se (break away, straggle), odlouèit se (sever). (various references)

Dutch		ontrouw worden (apostatize, desert), afvallen (apostatize, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, fall off, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, offal, release, tumble down). (various references)

Esperanto		malfideliĝi (apostatize, desert). (various references)

Farsi		منتزع شدن , کناره گیری کردن (Abdicate, Retire), جدارفتن , ازعضویت خارج شدن . (various references)

French		se séparer (separate, to segregate), faire sécession. (various references)

German		sich lossagen (break away, renounce), sich abspalten (open up, separate, split off), abspalten (hive off, split off). (various references)

Greek		χωρίζομαι (part, sunder), αποσχίζομαι, αποχωρώ (abandon, depart from, opt out, pull out). (various references)

Hungarian		kilép testületbõl, elszakad (to break away, to cut the painter, to go into holes, to hole, to secede, to wear into holes). (various references)

Indonesian		melepaskan diri. (various references)

Italian		staccarsi (sever, tear away). (various references)

Manx		scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecedesay

Portuguese		separar-se de, retirar-se (back down, clear off, disappear, off, retire, retreat), entrar em dissidência, abandonar (abandon, back down, cast off, cede, desert, doff, flee, forsake, forwent, give up, jettison, lay aside, lay down a rule, leave, neglect, off, quit, reject, relinquish, renounce, set aside, throw over, to abandon, vacant, vacate, waive). (various references)

Romanian		se separa (dissever, disunite, divaricate, divorce, separate, shut off), se sciziona, sciziona (split). (various references)

Russian		выйти из состава, выделиться, отделяться (segregate, separate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otcepiti se (tear away). (various references)

Spanish		desertar (apostatize, defect, desert, rat). (various references)

Swedish		utträda (break away, leave, withdraw). (various references)

Thai		แยกตัวออก. (various references)

Turkish		ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), çekilmek (abdicate, be pulled, bolt, bow, bow out, decline, desist, draw away, draw back, draw off, dry up, ebb, edge out, give over, go out, gravitate, opt out, quit, recede, repair, resign, retire, retract, scratch, stand, step aside, step down, walk out, withdraw), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukranian		відокремлюватися (dissever, dissociate, disunite, segregate, separate, single), виходити з партії. (various references)

Welsh		gwrthgilio (backslide). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	secedebat, secedere, secesserat, secessissent, secessit, secessum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "secede": seceded, seceder, seceders, secedes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Secede" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asevedo, eccede, Escaude, Escude, pecede, Sachdev, Salcedo, scode, Secada, secade, Secafe, secate, seccade, secced, seccede, secceede, seceed, seceede, secude, secunde, secute, seece, seede, seedle, seedo, segetum, sekere, seshed, sessede, sucede, sucide, sweede, zezeeee. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "secede" (pronounced susē"d)
4	-u s ē" d	precede, proceed, recede.
3	-s ē" d	accede, cede, concede, exceed, intercede, reseed, seed, succeed, supersede.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-s"
	-1 letter: cedes.
	-2 letters: cede, cees, dees, seed.
	-3 letters: cee, dee, eds, sec, see.
	-4 letters: de, ed, es.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-s"
	+1 letter: cheesed, decease, decrees, exceeds, recedes, seceded, seceder, secedes.
	+2 letters: coleseed, creeshed, deceased, deceases, deceives, decrease, decreers, defences, deselect, eschewed, excessed, exsected, precedes, recessed, resected, screeded, screened, seceders, secerned, secreted, seedcake, seedcase, selected.
	+3 letters: antecedes, beseeched, coleseeds, coredeems, credences, decedents, deceivers, decencies, decenters, decentest, decentres, decreased, decreases, defecates, descended, descender, desecrate, deselects, detecters, escheated, evanesced, evidences, exceeders, exercised, precessed, reaccedes, redecides, redefects, resecured, residence, respected, sceptered, schmeered, screeched, seedcakes, seedcases, sentenced, sequenced, sidepiece, succeeded, succeeder, supercede, tendences.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.