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/ˈænˌɛks/ /ənˈɛks/ Listen

noun

Annex n. Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

verb

Annex v. t. (past & past part. annexed; pres. part. annexing)

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will."

To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. "He annexed a province to his kingdom."

To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.

Synonyms: To add; append; affix; unite; coalesce. See Add.

Annex v. i. To join; to be united.

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Etymology of 'Annex'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Annex" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Union already. They have organized what they claim is an independent Government. They are not to be coerced back, you say. Are the prospects very favorable that they will return of their own accord? But they will annex territory. They are already looking to Mexico. If left to themselves they would annex her and all her neighbors, and we should lose our highway to the Pacific coast. They would acquire it, and to us it ...

— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden

... character and resources of a nobleman's or wealthy gentleman's kitchen at the end of the sixteenth and commencement of the seventeenth century may be formed from the Fairfax inventories (1594-1624), lately edited by Mr. Peacock. I propose to annex a catalogue of the ...

— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt

... to experiment with plants, let her study botany at the Harvard Annex. There she will learn how many questions in vegetable physiology are awaiting investigation. Darwin studied one twining plant after another till he discovered the rate of motion for each. Dr. Goodale tells us how ...

— Girls and Women • Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

... We shall therefore annex the titles of the most interesting and instructive of these travels, which were performed between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, referring such of our readers who wish for a more complete list ...

— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... cross the Hellespont himself, and, advancing into Thrace and Macedon, to annex those kingdoms to his own domains. Ptolemy Ceraunus accompanied him. This Ptolemy, it will be recollected, was the son of Ptolemy, king of Egypt, by his wife Eurydice; and, at first view, it might seem ...

— Pyrrhus - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

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