Join
Join verb - To be adjacent to.
Secede
Secede verb - Withdraw from an organization or communion.
Common collocations
| war | join war | secede war |
Both words in one sentence
- Half the Midwest is lost, and furthermore, in the course of the war Madison alienated New York and New Jersey and caused them to secede and join New England as well.
Source: Literature / Decades of Darkness - It is not part of The South, and the opposite is also true (although Texas did secede and join the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and seceded from Mexico over the exact same issue, possibly making Texas Double South).
- In The American Civil War, shortly after Virginia voted to secede from the Union, the counties in the area now known as West Virginia voted to secede from the state and join the Union.
Source: Rebellious Rebel
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Secede and Join. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/join/secede
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