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annex
[ verb uh-neks, an-eks; noun an-eks, -iks ]
verb (used with object)
- to attach, append, or add, especially to something larger or more important.
- to incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state:
Germany annexed part of Czechoslovakia.
- to take or appropriate, especially without permission.
- to attach as an attribute, condition, or consequence.
noun
- something annexed.
- a subsidiary building or an addition to a building:
The emergency room is in the annex of the main building.
- something added to a document; appendix; supplement:
an annex to a treaty.
annex
verb
- to join or add, esp to something larger; attach
- to add (territory) by conquest or occupation
- to add or append as a condition, warranty, etc
- to appropriate without permission
noun
- a variant spelling (esp US) of annexe
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Derived Forms
- anˈnexable, adjective
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Other Words From
- an·nex·a·ble adjective
- non·an·nex·a·ble adjective
- pre·an·nex verb (used with object)
- re·an·nex verb (used with object)
- un·an·nex·a·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of annex1
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Example Sentences
A few hours later the Annex itself came under attack and two of the same brave GRS operatives were killed.
Annex Medical Inc Annex Medical and Sacred Heart Medical are companies that design, manufacture, and sell medical devices.
She was the first but not last leader of Russia to annex Crimea.
“We are too small to be independent for long and would have to ask Russia to annex us,” says translator Alec.
That team fought their way back to the CIA annex with other Americans and sustained a low-level firefight throughout the evening.
But, nevertheless, in this house and not in its secret annex of a Hundred Raptures he designed to spend the night.
Th' ilivator in th' left annex fell thirteen stories Thursday, but no wan was injured.
Electricity seems destined to annex the whole field, not merely of optics, but probably also of thermotics.
Once more men began to value empire, to seek to annex new territory overseas, and to bind closer the existing possessions.
Further, Hodgeman and he built an annex out of spare timber to connect the entrance veranda with the store.
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