English words for 'In favour of annexation.'
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noun
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Annexed; concomitant.
- Attached as an appendage.
- (law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- affixed as an appendage
noun
noun
- an advocate of partitioning a country
- (Canada, politics) A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec.
- A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.
noun
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
noun
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
noun
noun
noun
- an advocate of partitioning a country
- (Canada, politics) A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec.
- A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.
noun
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
noun
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
noun
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
adj
- Annexed; concomitant.
- Attached as an appendage.
- (law) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- affixed as an appendage