attach

Meaning

Verb

• To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
• To adhere; to be attached.
• To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
• 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.
• To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
• To take, seize, or lay hold of.
• To arrest, seize.

Origin

• From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier, derived from estache, from Frankish *stakka ("stick"). attack. More at stake, stack.