attach

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 6.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

   You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.

2. verb To adhere; to be attached.
3. verb To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

   I've attached the contract to this email.

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

   Dower will attach.

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

   to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

7. verb To take, seize, or lay hold of.
8. verb To arrest, seize.

Similar words

seize confiscate sequester impound tether enclose bind append fasten tie

Often followed by

to the a themselves it any itself them great much

Word family

attachable attached attaches attaching attachment attachments