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annex
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annex as in:  annexed the community

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The county annexed the rural community where we live.
annexed = took territory to make it part of a larger territory
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    Hitler annexed Lithuania.
    annexed = took (a territory to make it part of a larger territory)
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    I may as well tell you, if you don't know it already, that as a young lieutenant in the Japanese marines, Nobu had been severely injured in a bombing outside Seoul in 1910, at the time Korea was being annexed to Japan.  (source)
    annexed = taken and attached
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    When, a few years later, the Emperor annexed the land, the Eritreans at once began a guerrilla war for their liberation.  (source)
    annexed = took territory
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    "He's already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia," said Uncle Abraham.  (source)
    annexed = taken territory to make it part of a larger territory
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    Sam Houston was elected president, and a struggle began for annexation by the United States, an idea resisted by antislavery forces in the U.S. Congress.  (source)
    annexation = the process of taking territory
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Annexations and ancillaries, and people like me being assigned to the military.†  (source)
    Annexations = territories taken into a larger territory
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    This 'dining hall' where I now sit, however, is a modern annexe built to adjoin the main building — a long, fiat room characterized by rows of large windows on either side.†  (source)
    annexe = take territory
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use annex.
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    Like they're annexing us or doing us some kind of favor.†  (source)
    annexing = taking territory
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    Ossuary annexes were a cheap ecclesiastic fix to an awkward dilemma.†  (source)
    annexes = takes territory
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    Meantime, Calypso brought him for a sail Fittest materials, which he also shaped, And to his sail due furniture annex'd 310 Of cordage strong, foot-ropes, and ropes aloft, Then heav'd her down with levers to the Deep.†  (source)
    annex'd = took territory
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    They argue about what we ought to annex. The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal-areas of France, and a slice of Russia.  (source)
    annex = take
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    For these affairs, Joe literally annexed the square as his own front yard.†  (source)
    annexed = took territory
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    Gladstone explained that this was no longer in the interest of humanity and that a forcible annexation of Hyperion-under the guise of defending the Web itself-would allow more progressive AI coalitions in the Core to gain power.†  (source)
    annexation = the process of taking territory
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annex as in:  annex of the main building

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The YMCA added an annex where younger children can play.
annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    Their display is in the annex to the main convention hall.
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    Then, suddenly, he was in the Annex room again, writhing on the bed.  (source)
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    From there, we left the Franks' living area, but we were still in the museum: A long narrow hallway showed pictures of each of the annex's eight residents and described how and where and when they died.  (source)
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    Bottle fillers must use the bathroom in the annex.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    The Chapter House was a kind of satellite structure—a freestanding annex at the end of the long hallway to ensure the privacy of the Parliament proceedings housed there.  (source)
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    There are two steps between the annex and the main house,  (source)
    annex = an addition added to a main building
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    Monday morning, I was called out of English class to the library annex.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    The entire Annex breathed a huge sigh of relief.  (source)
    Annex = (people in) an addition that extends a main building
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    I knew nothing about kimono except how to wear them, so I was given the task of spending my days in the basement of the workshop annex, tending to the vats of dye as they boiled.  (source)
    annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    The lights in the annex were controlled from some central point.  (source)
    annex = an addition added to a main building
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    She's waiting in the annex.  (source)
    Annex = an addition that extends a main building
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    Two days ago I was sitting in the Gynecology Annex of the University Hospital down in Iowa City waiting for Dr. Mrs. Jaswani to get off the phone and call me in, when the woman next to me on the sofa started sobbing into a book she held pressed tight to her face.†  (source)
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    He could see the fine copperplate of the numbers the smaller needle at the bottom which recorded tenths of seconds, he could see the brand name printed in tiny letters: ANNEX.†  (source)
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