Synonyms for attach


Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-tach
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtætʃ

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Définition of attach

Origin :
  • mid-14c. (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), "to take or seize (property or goods) by law," a legal term, from Old French atachier (11c.), earlier estachier "to attach, fix; stake up, support" (Modern French attacher, also cf. Italian attaccare), perhaps from a- "to" + Frankish *stakon "a post, stake" or a similar Germanic word (see stake (n.)). Meaning "to fasten, affix, connect" is from c.1400. Related: Attached; attaching.
  • verb join, fasten
  • verb socially join
  • verb attribute, ascribe
Example sentences :
  • Porter laughed at the idea that responsibility could attach to Crane.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • I'll attach the money to the note, and put them away together.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Let not the penance for a rashness, to which fate urges me on, attach to my country, but to me.
  • Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • They were timid, but on the whole disposed to attach themselves to me.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • An attach from the French Embassy was waiting to speak to me on urgent business.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • It is really all a question of the meaning which we attach to the word “religion.”
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • Colonel Hofferman seemed to attach no importance whatever to it.
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • Mr. Bean seems to attach great value to the box or its contents.
  • Extract from : « Polly of Lady Gay Cottage » by Emma C. Dowd
  • It all depends on what meaning you attach to the word 'possible'
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • Nay, Socrates, he said; you surely do not attach any importance to what he is saying.
  • Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato

Antonyms for attach

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