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1. (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

2. (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

3. (v. t.) 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; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.

4. (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.

5. (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

6. (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.

7. (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.

8. (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

9. (n.) An attachment.

Thesaurus
add adhere adjoin affiliate affix agglutinate anchor annex append apply appropriate ascribe assign associate attract attribute belay bend bind bond braze burden cement cinch clamp cleave clinch collectivize commandeer communalize communize complicate confiscate conjoin connect cramp decorate distrain encumber endear engraft enlist expropriate fasten fix garnish give glue glue on graft grapple hitch on impound impress impute infix join join with knit lay hold of levy make fast moor nationalize ornament paste on pin place plus postfix prefix press put put to put with refer replevin replevy rivet saddle with screw up second secure seize sequester sequestrate set set to slap on socialize solder stick subjoin suffix superadd superpose tack on tag tag on tie tighten trice up trim unite unite with weld
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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