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Definition of attach : 1. An attachment.
2. To adhere; to be attached.
3. 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.
4. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; - with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
9. 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.

Synonyms:

draw, capture, set apart, sum up, moor, constipate, assume, get hold of, appropriate, pound, seclude, withdraw, append, adjoin, keep apart, join on, extend, assemble, study at, increase, tie up, link up, link, arrogate, name, obligate, isolate, associate, prehend, amplify, cast up, clip, take over, sequestrate, confiscate, sequester, seize, impound, oblige, tie down, bring together, stick to, truss, grab, conquer, detail, draw together, hold fast, augment, bandage, tie, enlarge, usurp, make up, secure, fix, clutch, hold, appoint, subjoin

adorn, accompany, second, chaperone, garnish, convoy, add, escort, attend, accessorize, supplement

acknowledge, mark, attribute, place, set, accredit, apply, cite, impute, refer, cast, blame, credit, ascribe, assign, brand

ally, affiliate, consolidate, amalgamate

cling, hitch, adhere, merge, relate, join, bond, fasten, stick, affix, connect, juxtapose, splice, bind, marry, wed, annex, abut, couple

Usage examples:

• Later on it learns that there are particular sounds which attach to particular objects, and cause them to function. - "The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society", Upton Sinclair.
• And if you are not able to secure this instrument, take a straw and attach its end to an egg- shell. - "Drawings and Pharmacy in Al-Zahrawi's 10th-Century Surgical Treatise", Sami Hamarneh.
• Joan of Arc's judges had found nothing to attach guilt to her in any of her replies; but as she had been condemned before the farce was enacted of trying her, her innocence could not save her life. - "Joan of Arc", Ronald Sutherland Gower.