1. to add notes or comments to a text to explain or criticize it

Examples

• The teacher asked students to annotate the poem with their observations.
• She carefully annotated the manuscript with detailed footnotes.
• The editor annotated the historical document to provide context for modern readers.
• Students must annotate at least five passages in the novel for homework.
• The researcher annotated the data with explanatory notes.
• He annotated the margins of his textbook with important definitions.