SSOif a country or statesecedes from another country, it officially stops being part of it and becomes independent 〔从…中〕退出,脱离OPP accede
secede from
By 1861,11 states had seceded from the Union.
到1861年,已有11个州退出联邦。
Examples from the Corpus
secede• In 2001, Chechens will be permitted to vote to secede.• With Obote making inroads into its power, Buganda attempts to secede.• Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.• It was no wonder that from time to time engineeringfaculty had pro-posed that the school secede from the college.• The Ibos seceded in 1967 as the state of Biafra, prompting a war that left 1 million people dead.• In Berlin a splinter group formed within the Society, but it did not secede until 1898.