📚 Annex, verb. 🔉 /əˈnɛks/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation. ❗️ Examples: 1. The left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France in 1797. 2. King Moshoeshoe I was left with a mountainous, infertile kingdom when most of his arable land was annexed to the Orange Free State in the 1860s. 3. The lands were annexed to the City of London on January 1st 1993. 4. This procedure was deemed to have been an ‘Act of Free Choice’ in accordance with the United Nations requirements and Indonesia formally annexed the territory in August. 5. The Western Sahara conflict broke out in 1975 when Morocco annexed the territory after Spain withdrew from what was then a Spanish colony. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic