| Main Entry: | annexation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adding, joining |
Synonyms: |
addition, annexing, appropriation, attachment, grab, incorporation, increase, increment, merger, takeover |
Antonyms: |
detachment, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | process of conjoining, adding |
Synonyms: |
accession, adding, adjoining, affixing, annexation, attachment, augmentation, enlargement, extension, inclusion, increasing |
| Notes: | an addition is something that, when added, serves simply to augment or extend that to which it has been added, leaving the character of the original unchanged; an addendum forms a separate distinguishable portion of the whole and it first meant 'a thing to be added' |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deduction, lessening, loss, reduction, shrinkage, subtraction, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
Synonyms: |
acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
Antonyms: |
failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | junction/juncture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | link, connection |
Synonyms: |
alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, collocation, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, concursion, confluence, conjugation, consolidation, convergence, coupling, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, hookup, interface, intersection, joining, joint, knee, linking, meeting, miter, mortise, node, pivot, plug-in, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, tie-in, tie-up, union, weld |
| Main Entry: | seizure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capture, taking |
Synonyms: |
abduction, annexation, apprehension, arrest, bust, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop, grab, grabbing, hook*, pinch*, seizing, snatch |
Antonyms: |
letting go, liberation, release |
| Main Entry: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
Synonyms: |
annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, caper, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab*, heist, holdup, hustle*, job*, larceny, lift*, looting, mugging, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch*, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score*, shoplifting, snatch*, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, thieving, touch*, vandalism |
Antonyms: |
return |
| Main Entry: | junction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection |
Synonyms: |
alliance, annexation, articulation, assemblage, attachment, bond, coalition, coherence, collocation, combination, combine, concatenation, concourse, concursion, confluence, conjugation, consolidation, convergence, coupling, crossing, crossroads, dovetail, elbow, gathering, gore, hinge, hookup, interface, intersection, joining, joint, juncture, knee, link, linking, meeting, miter, mortise, node, pivot, plug-in, reunion, seam, splice, terminal, tie-in, tie-up, union, weld |
| Main Entry: | usurpation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizing something |
Synonyms: |
abduction, annexation, apprehension, appropriation, arrest, arrogation, assumption, bust, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop*, grab*, grabbing, hook*, pinch*, preemption, seizing, seizure, snatch |
| Main Entry: | addition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accessory, accrual, added, additional, additive, adjectitious, adscititious, anabatic, ascititious, ascriptitious, beblubbered, big, bigswoln, bloated, blowzy, bulbous, distended, dropsical, epactal, exaggerated, expanded, expansive, extra, fat, flabelliform, full-blown, full-formed, full-grown, gorbelly, gravid, hypertrophic, hypertrophied, increased, larger, obese, oedematous, on the increase, overgrown, patulous, phlogogenetic, pinguescent, planteric, pot-bellied, puffy, pulvinate, pursy, scaturient, subjunctive, sufflated, supervacaneous, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, sway-bellied, swelling, swollen, tumid, turgescent, turgid, undiminished, wide-open, widespread, évasé
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| Main Entry: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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