Definition of "annexing" []

• Present participle of annex. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The suburban city of Burien is showing a strong interest in annexing White Center."
• "At Honolulu these annexationists made speeches abusing the Senate of the United States for the delay in annexing Hawaii; they further said the most grossly insulting things of President Cleveland because he frustrated their plans, and included Secretary Gresham in their condemnation because he failed to recognize them as Americans."
• "Matthew, in annexing this cure to that of the leper, who was a Jew, intimates this; the leprous Jews Christ touched and cured, for he preached personally to them; but the paralytic Gentiles he cured at a distance; for to them he did not go in person, but sent his word and healed them; yet in them he was more magnified."