attached
/əˈtæt͡ʃt/ adjective B2- Connected; joined. · The car has something of a history attached to it.
- Fond of (used with to). · I'm very attached to my pets.
- Included as an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication). · Please see the attached file in my previous email.
- 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.· I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.
- 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.
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“Worthy Caderousse!” said the old man, “he is so much attached to us.”
“Yes, monsieur; I am on the point of marrying a young girl I have been attached to for three years.” Villefort, impassive as he was, was struck with this coincidence; and the tremulous voice of Dantès, surprised in the midst of his happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom—he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of another.
On the contrary, there is a good deal of evidence that the Douglases were very attached to each other.”
There, seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell, and to which, from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people, he was particularly attached, the king, Louis XVIII., was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age, with gray hair, aristocratic bearing, and exceedingly gentlemanly attire, and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius’s rather inaccurate, but much sought-after, edition of Horace—a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
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