[əˈtatʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- join or fasten (something) to something else
(e.g: attach your safety line to the bridge)

- attribute importance or value to
(e.g: he doesn't attach too much importance to fixed ideas)

- seize (a person or property) by legal authority
(e.g: the Earl Marshal attached Gloucester for high treason)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘seize by legal authority’): from medieval Latin attachiare ‘seize, fasten’ and Old French atachier or estachier ‘fasten, fix’, of uncertain origin; perhaps based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake; compare with attack