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ә'tætʃ8 senses · 50 ms
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verb/əˈtæt͡ʃ/
  1. 1

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

    • You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
    • An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
  2. 2

    To adhere; to be attached.intransitive

    • The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
  3. 3

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

    • I've attached the contract to this email.
  4. 4

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

    • Dower will attach.
  5. 5

    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.

    • attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
  6. 6

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

    • to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
    • Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.
  7. 7

    To take, seize, or lay hold of.obsolete

    • Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
  8. 8

    To arrest, seize.obsolete

    • Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
    • Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

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