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attach

Pronunciation: /əˈtæt͡ʃ/

The English word “attach” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  2. To adhere; to be attached.
  3. To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
  4. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  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.
  6. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  7. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  8. To arrest, seize.

Etymology

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.

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