attach

Meaning

1. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
2. (intransitive) 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. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
8. (obsolete) To arrest, seize.

Opposite of

detach, unfasten, disengage, separate, adhere, join

Synonyms

join

fasten

fix

affix

connect

add

stick

tie

append

secure

bind

annex

unite

adhere

link

🔗

make fast

seize

put on

tie up

determine

pin

associate

sequester

hook

🪝

put

glue

tether

bond

confiscate

set

apply

assign

impound

hang

pair

paste

mount

place

increase

appoint

fit

distrain

moor

combine

knot

🪢

tie on

attachment

hook on

hook up

hitch on

Translations

attacher

befestigen

lier

🔗

fixer

attaccare

joindre

bağlamak

apposer

takmak

adjuntar

anexar

anhängen

vastmaken

fissare

tutturmak

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈtæt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: attachen

In summary

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.