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annexed

[ an-ekst, uh-nekst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

attached or added, especially to something larger or more important:
The final report, together with annexed comments made by the inspected party, shall be submitted within 30 days after the inspection.
(of territory) incorporated into the domain of a larger entity, often as an act of aggression:
The bill will clarify the authority of cities and villages over annexed county roads.
In October 1939 Hitler gave his newly appointed Reich Commissioner full control over the annexed section of Poland.

Origin of annexed¹

It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.

Today, in the midst of the war, what patriotic Ukrainian would vacation on an annexed beach?

Putin mentioned the word before, during the Crimea crises last spring before he annexed the strategic peninsula.

By then the Nazis had already annexed large swathes of Europe, and Britain was embarrassingly unprepared for war.

They would either be annexed to a larger unit after defeat, or they would form one preemptively to avoid defeat.

The America that they annexed to Europe was merely a new domain added to a world already old.

Whenever fixtures annexed to real estate retain the character of personal property they may be mortgaged.

An implied warranty as to quality or fitness for a particular purpose may also be annexed by the usage of trade.

Is there any other engraved portrait of her in existence beside the one annexed to the several editions of her poems?

Indeed, that word is frequently annexed to the figure as if to show more distinctly its meaning, as in Figs. 42 and 43.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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