annex
verb (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they annex | |
he / she / it annexes | |
past simple annexed | |
past participle annexed | |
-ing form annexing |
- annex something
to take control of a country, region, etc., especially by force synonym occupyTopics Historyc2强占,并吞(国家、地区等) Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- formally
- officially
- illegally
- …
- to
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French annexer, from Latin annectere ‘connect’, from ad- ‘to’ + nectere ‘tie, fasten’.