Word Meanings - SECEDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SECEDE)

• Retire
• Withdraw
• retreat
• depart
• secede
• shrink
• repair
• Segregate
• Separate
• select
• part
• localize
• exclude
• Split
• Divide
• separate
• rive
• cleave
• crack
• splinter
• burst
• rend
• sunder
• disagree
• disunite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SECEDE)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to SECEDE)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The