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1. Fasten to something; join or connect to
    
2. Be in contact with or tightly connected to
    
3. Become joined to
   "The spider's thread attached to the window sill"
    
4. Create social or emotional ties
   - bind, tie, bond
    
5. Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
   - impound, sequester, confiscate, seize, sequestrate

Derived forms: attaching, attaches, attached

See also: attach to, inhere in

Type of: adjoin, conjoin [formal], connect, contact, join, link, link up, meet, relate, take, tie, touch

Antonym: come away, detach

Encyclopedia: Attach