🏢 An extra building 🗺️ To take territory ➕ To add or attach

to annex

5 6.9

To add a smaller area or building to a larger place

verb
/ˈænɛks/

: anexar

Instead, they elected a new mayor and developed a plan to annex a portion of neighboring Cheshire Township (Price 2003, 2004a).
annexed to the city

It will probably take you years before you can annex enough spaces in that house for your stuff.

Examples

Officials envisioned annexing all or parts of the arsenal to Commerce City for new airport-related industrial and commercial development.

Academic text (1999)
For example, Palm Springs annexed several square miles of land occupied by the wind turbines and started receiving tax revenues.

Academic text (2011)
Nor was the town able to annex nearby land.

Academic text (2005)
Some nations go so far as to completely annex their energy industries.

Blog text (14)
Kokomo is planning to annex part of its southeast side into the city limits.

Blog text (18)
Due to expanded enrollment, the university annexed this building and rushed construction in order to accommodate more students.

Asylum (2008)
When different reports pertained to overlapping populations, we retained the original study and annexed additional information from subsequent reports.

Academic text (2003)
They've annexed 800 acres, it has been re-zoned, the development and utility agreements are getting into place.

Eddington (2025)
In 1853, the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Wards were formed, and twenty years later, the city annexed the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards from Westchester County.

Academic text (2005)
The government decided to annex the neighboring territory to promote economic growth.

Antonyms

to detach

9 4.0

To come apart from something it is connected to

How Attached

to incorporate

219 4.5

to annex

5 6.9

to attach

599 2.5

to append

8 4.6

to add

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

annex infinitive

annexed past

annexed past participle

annexing present participle

annexes third person singular

Etymology

Annex comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and nectere 'to tie', the same idea as in connect. So to annex something is to add or attach it to a larger thing, like adding a room to a house or a region to a country.