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The Clue

Form a splinter group (6 letter answer)

The Answer

SECEDE

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Notes

The answer SECEDE is common and appears about once every 325 puzzles.

Related Clues

Disaffiliate
Leave
Withdraw
Withdraw (from)
Withdraw from
Break away
Break off
Break a union
Drop out
Leave the country?
Leave a group
Leave the Union
Pull out
Withdraw formally
Withdraw from a union
Withdraw from the Union
Be a union buster?
Become an ex-member
Emulate S.C. in 1860
Formally withdraw from membership
Pull out formally
Break up an alliance, in a way
Emulate what Dixie did in 1861

Definition

SECEDE as a verb:

1. (secede, splinter, break away) = withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"