annex

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1. annex - Noun

2. annex - Verb

3. Annex - Proper noun

Meaning

To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.

To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.

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

To join; to be united.

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

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I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state. Yitzhak Rabin

Hitler annexed Lithuania Source: Internet

According to Molotov, the Soviet Union did not want to occupy or annex Finland; the goal was purely to secure Leningrad. Source: Internet

According to the plan, Israel would annex “the vast majority” of Israeli settlements in the West Bank that are illegal. Source: Internet

Although many wanted the Loyola College to become Loyola University, the Quebec government preferred to annex it to Sir George Williams University. Source: Internet

American administration of the border police stabilized the frontier with Sierra Leone (part of the British Empire) and checked French ambitions to annex more Liberian territory. Source: Internet

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