(verb.) withdraw from an organization or communion; 'After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away'.

校对:菲利斯

• South Carolina promptly seceded after the result of the Presidential election was known. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The sky was stripped bare of clouds by the increasing gale, while the tide at its ebb seceded entirely from the town. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Instead of this the seceding States cried lustily,--Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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