fasten.
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
Meaning & usage
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
Fasten your seat belts!
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
to fasten a blow
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastinōn (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast + -en.
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