Antonyms for attach

Grammar : Verb

Spell : uh-tach

Phonetic Transcription : əˈtætʃ

Definition 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

Synonyms for attach

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