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Thesaurus: confederate

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

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  1. a. United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
  3. n. One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
  4. n. A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
  5. v. t. To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
  6. v. i. To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
  7. adj. of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
  8. n. a supporter of the Confederate States of America
  9. adj. united in a confederacy or league
  10. n. someone who assists in a plot
  11. n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
  12. v. form a group or unite