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verb

Fasten v. t. (past & past part. fastened; pres. part. fastening)

1.

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

2.

To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something, or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. "The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them."

3.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. (Obs.) "If I can fasten but one cup upon him."

To fasten a charge upon or To fasten a crime upon, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed.

To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation.

Synonyms: To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex.

Fasten v. i. To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. "A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish."

adjective

fastened adj.

1.

Affixed. Opposite of unaffixed.

Synonyms: secured.

2.

Secured against opening; of doors, hatches, etc.

Synonyms: latched.

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Etymology of 'Fastened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fastened" Quotes from Famous Books

... first to last," answered the detective, "as far as she is concerned it might have been a woman or a black man who trussed her up. It was quite dark in her bedroom and this burglar fellow, after binding and gagging her, fastened a bandage across her eyes into the bargain. She says she heard him moving about her room and then creep out very softly. The next thing she knew was Mrs. Chugg arriving at her ...

— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams

... dejection none imagined, and she was perhaps ashamed to acknowledge. While all was merriment around her, she became suddenly pensive. A passage of the word of God, pointedly in contrast with the spirit of the scene, had come with irresistible power to her recollection. It fastened upon her conscience:—it reached her heart. The music and dancing lost their charms; she sat in solitariness, though surrounded with company; the world's fascinations appeared in a light in which she had never before seen them, and the salutary ...

— The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 • Various

... to rest, the door of her sleeping-room is fastened from the outside by one of the matrons. The girl has no means of opening it herself, but by touching a little spring at the head of her couch she can at any moment communicate with the matron night-watchers. These matron night-watchers—two ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... the step of the arbor, an end of the clematis vine swaying lightly back and forth over her head, and almost touching her bright hair which was now towered high in the fashion of the day. She was holding a spray of the vine in her hand. She had fastened one end in the hair of a young lady who stood beside her, and was now bringing the other about her neck, arranging the leaves and flowers with skilful touches. Three men, including the new-comer, watched her pretty air of absorption, and the deftness of her taper fingers, the sweep of her ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 2, Issue 3, December, 1884 • Various

... in. Two horsemen rode abreast; between them, half dragged, the poor wretch made his way through the dust. His hands were tied behind him, and ropes around his body were fastened to the saddle horns of his double guard. The men who at midnight had been stern and silent were now emitting that terror-instilling sound known as the "rebel yell." A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about ...

— The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • James Weldon Johnson

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