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Fasten

//ˈfɑːsn̩// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To attach or connect in a secure manner. ambitransitive

    "The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch."

  2. 2
    make tight or tighter wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

    "to fasten a blow"

  4. 4
    attach to wordnet
  5. 5
    cause to be firmly attached wordnet
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  1. 6
    become fixed or fastened wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastinōn (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast + -en.

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