attach
/əˈtæt͡ʃ/ verb B1- To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). · You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.· An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- To adhere; to be attached.
- To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication). · I've attached the contract to this email.
- 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· Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.
He/she/it attaches · Past attached · Past participle attached · -ing form attaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- attach
- He/she/it
- attaches
- Past
- attached
- Past participle
- attached
- -ing form
- attaching
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It’s about two beautiful maidens called Cordelia Montmorency and Geraldine Seymour who lived in the same village and were devotedly attached to each other.
In the absence of Jane, he always attached himself to Elizabeth for the pleasure of talking of her; and when Bingley was gone, Jane constantly sought the same means of relief.
“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.
“Worthy Caderousse!” said the old man, “he is so much attached to us.”
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