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Attach

verb

(past & past part. attached; pres. part. attaching)

Cause to be attached.

Be attached; be in contact with.

Become attached.

Create social or emotional ties. Synonyms: bind, bond, tie.

Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority. Synonyms: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester. "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"

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... what she felt. But she was evidently unused to analyzing her aesthetic emotions, and the tumultuous rush of the drama seemed to have left her in a state of panting wonder, as though it had been a storm or some other natural cataclysm. She had no literary or historic associations to which to attach her impressions: her education had evidently not comprised a course in Greek literature. But she felt what would probably have been unperceived by many a young lady who had taken a first in classics: the ineluctable ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

... replied. "I would prefer to do so rather than have a single breath of scandal or even suspicion attach itself to you." ...

— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt

... life," he answered meaningly. "A little hunting, perhaps," he continued, "and I shall have a villa at Florence. The Villa Sub-Rosa would sound rather quaint and picturesque, don't you think, and quite a lot of people would be able to attach a meaning to the name. And I suppose I must have a hobby; ...

— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki

... most of these shore weeds are green, sometimes as green as young grass. Pull up a bunch of the weed, and you find that it clings to the rocks and stones, but has no real roots. Seaweeds belong to a humble family in the world of plants, having no real roots, no flowers, and no real seeds. They can attach themselves to the stones or rocks. Along comes a great wave, and perhaps they are torn up; but this does not harm them, for they still live as they wash to and fro in the water, until they cling to another rock. Or they are thrown on the shore to die, or else to be washed back to sea by ...

— On the Seashore • R. Cadwallader Smith

... began to attach less importance to the personal point of view, she ceased applying everything to herself, and she discovered the importance of the life of others. If we study this attentively, we shall see that a new phase now commenced in the history of her ideas. Lamennais was the origin of this transformation, ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

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