'attach' definitions:
Definition of 'attach'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cause to be attached [ant: detach]
verb
Be attached; be in contact with
verb
Become attached; "The spider's thread attached to the window sill" [ant: come away, come off, detach]
verb
Create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, attach, bond]
verb
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" [syn: impound, attach, sequester, confiscate, seize]
Synonyms of 'attach'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'attach'
- attach to,
- attachable,
- attache,
- attached,
- attached to,
- attachment,
- Attached column,
- Eolian attachment,
- Foreign attachment,
- Service of an attachment,
- To serve an attachment,
- air attache,
- army attache,
- attache case,
- cultural attache,
- military attache,
- naval attache,
- To serve a writ of attachment,
- process of foreign attachment,
- link-attached station,
- link-attached terminal