0 present participle of annex
1 to take possession of an area of land or a country, usually by force or without permission:
Instead of conservation, meeting the future commercial needs was the real motive behind the government in annexing large tracts into the forests.
I shall, therefore, certainly oppose with the whole of my strength the annexing of this sum of money and putting it into a sinking fund.
I have no idea of annexing the royal borough.
Is that why we are formally annexing it and applying certain administrative procedures to it?
It is about annexing a group of countries and not about real negotiations between equal parties.
It would mean penalising the country by annexing it.
We have not the least intention of annexing the island, nor should we, at any time.
They are still intent on annexing for themselves as much of small business and shopkeeping as they can get hold of.
