verb
- past tense of reannex; to annex again or take back territory that was previously annexed
Usage: political/territorial context
Examples
- The country reannexed the disputed territory after the peace treaty.
- Russia reannexed Crimea in 2014 after it had been part of Ukraine.
- The empire reannexed the province that had declared independence decades earlier.
- Following the war, the nation reannexed several border regions.
- The government reannexed the autonomous zone under new legislation.
- Historical records show the territory was reannexed multiple times over centuries.