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Definition of annexing : of Annex

Synonyms:

aggregating, accumulating, tallying, augmenting, summing, increasing, adding, incrementing, attaining, accruing, totaling

allying, affiliating, consolidating, amalgamating

collecting, procuring, amassing, depriving, confiscating, monopolizing, catching, appropriating, levying, abducting, harvesting, gathering, grabbing, acquiring, usurping, reaping, impounding, taking, getting, capturing, bagging, nabbing, commandeering

clinging, hitching, adhering, merging, relating, joining, bonding, fastening, sticking, affixing, connecting, juxtaposing, splicing, binding, marrying, wedding, attaching, abutting, coupling

luring, wrangling, purchasing, obtaining, scoring, garnering, assuming, palming, heaping, buying, pocketing, cornering, incurring, claiming, retrieving, securing, winning, fetching, receiving, netting, landing

Usage examples:

• Sometimes we made a large party, annexing a few cousins and aunts for the day. - "The Promised Land", Mary Antin.
• " I always has free- four- 'leven when mother is at home," said Alison firmly, annexing a chocolate cake and digging her little white teeth into it in the hope of averting any further argument. - "Captain Jim", Mary Grant Bruce.
• I suppose that gave zest to the sport of annexing him. - "Gossamer 1915", George A. Birmingham.