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attach
- /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
Rhymes with -ætʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.
Displaced native Old English þīedan.
verb attaches · attaching · attached
- To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
- To adhere; to be attached. The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication). I've attached the contract to this email.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest. Dower will attach.
- 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
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to. to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To take, seize, or lay hold of. Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
- To arrest, seize. Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
