What does "annex" mean?
Annex: To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He annexed a province to his kingdom. Johnson.
Additional senses
- 2.To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt. See Add.
- 3.To join; to be united. Tooke.
- 4.Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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