annex

annex is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
2. transitive verb. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
3. transitive verb. To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
4. intransitive verb. To join; to be united.
5. noun. Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.
6. noun. an addition that extends a main building

   Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing

7. verb. attach to
8. verb. take (territory) as if by conquest

   "Hitler annexed Lithuania"

Synonyms

annexe, extension, wing

Common word forms

annexal, annexed, annexer, annexes, annexing, annexable, annexment

Words from these letters

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