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attached

/əˈtætʃt/

verb

Meaning

  • To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

    "An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship."

  • To adhere; to be attached.

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

    "Dower will attach."

  • 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"

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

    "to attach great importance to a particular circumstance"

  • To take, seize, or lay hold of.

  • To arrest, seize.

Synonyms

affix,
annex,
connect,
unite,
cling,
stick

adjective

Meaning

  • Connected; joined.

  • Fond of (used with to).

    "I'm very attached to my pets."

  • In a romantic or sexual relationship.

    "As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date."

  • Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.

    "In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent."

  • Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.