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Thesaurus: confederate
United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
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Definitions
- a. United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
- 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.
- 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.
- n. A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
- v. t. To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
- v. i. To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
- adj. of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War
- n. a supporter of the Confederate States of America
- adj. united in a confederacy or league
- n. someone who assists in a plot
- n. a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
- v. form a group or unite