attaching

verb

1. 1

   To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

   “An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.”

2. 2

   To adhere; to be attached.

3. 3

   To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

   “Dower will attach.”

4. 4

   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.

   “attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery”

5. 5

   To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.

   “to attach great importance to a particular circumstance”

6. 6

   To take, seize, or lay hold of.

7. 7

   To arrest, seize.