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annex

Verb B1 – Intermediate

To take control of a territory and add it to your own country, especially by force.

"The empire annexed the neighboring kingdom after a brief war."

"Annex" as a noun also means an extra building attached to a larger one, a separate but related sense involving addition.

Antonyms

relinquish cede