attach

verb

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

(intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.

To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.

Roots

adat- · Latin · to (assimilated form)tachetach- · Old French · nail, stake, peg

Synonyms for attach

bindn affixv tien fastenv appendv subjoinv connectv agglutinatev addv gluen adherev seizev

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