seceded
past simple and past participle ofsecede
secede
verb[I]
formaluk/sɪˈsiːd/us/sɪˈsiːd/tobecomeindependentof acountryorareaofgovernment:
There islikelyto becivilwarif theregiontriesto secedefromthesouth.
Colonization & self-government
- acknowledgement of country
- annex
- annexation
- anti-colonial
- anti-colonialism
- colonize
- colony
- commonwealth
- condominium
- crown colony
- imperialist
- independence
- Independence Day
- intercolonial
- land acknowledgment
- recolonization
- recolonize
- secede
- secession
- the Raj
Examplesofseceded
seceded
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In this article attention is focused exclusively on the non-southern states; the eleven states thatsecededafter the 1860 election are omitted from the analysis.
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In fact, they have notsecededbecause they could not, and now after 200 years they do not want to.
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Would that part-seceding district council be allowed to speak and vote on matters on which it had partlyseceded?
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I do not believe that we, in this century, at any rate, have unilaterallysecededfrom any international treaty.
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If a district councilseceded, there would be greater accountability.
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That has not happened: not a single metropolitan district hasseceded.
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Biafra hassecededfrom a federation of incompatible tribal units.
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One or two, perhaps, haveseceded.
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The concerned religious organisations usually refuse to administer rites of passage, such as marriages and burials of (former) members who hadseceded.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There, the progressive elements in the communitysecededfrom the conservative majority in 1861, seeking to administer synagogue reforms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With the start of civil war, economic and transportation ties were broken, resulting in shortage of most parts coming from the twosecededrepublics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the southern statessecededin 1860-61, they relied on the compact theory to justify secession.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1913, the clubsecededto rugby league, although after a few years returned to rugby union.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Similar groups in several villagessecededat the same time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Those worlds eventuallyseceded, provoking a civil war.
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