attach

attach is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
2. transitive verb. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
3. transitive verb. 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; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
4. transitive verb. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
5. transitive verb. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
6. transitive verb. To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
7. intransitive verb. To adhere; to be attached.
8. intransitive verb. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
9. noun. An attachment.
10. verb. be attached; be in contact with
11. verb. become attached

    "The spider's thread attached to the window sill"

12. verb. cause to be attached
13. verb. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

    "The FBI seized the drugs"

    "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"

    Synonyms: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

14. verb. create social or emotional ties

    "The grandparents want to bond with the child"

    Synonyms: bind, bond, tie

Synonyms

confiscate, impound, seize, sequester, bind, bond, tie

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in attach:

chatta

Common word forms

attached, attacher, attaches, attaching, attachable, attachment

Words from these letters

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