attach
verb [T] (TAKE GOODS) /əˈtætʃ/ UK legalDefinition
› to officially take someone's money or the things that they own, or to arrest them, usually because they have failed to pay money that they owePunishing and punishmentsPunishing by causing painHitting and beatingArresting and charging
(Definition of attach verb (TAKE GOODS) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- attachment noun (TAKING GOODS)
- bar verb (PREVENT)
- be brought/called to account idiom
- carrot and stick idiom
- catch up with sb phrasal verb (PUNISH)
- clobber verb (HIT)
- come down on sb/sth phrasal verb
- crucify verb
- discipline verb (PUNISH)
- flay sb alive idiom
- kick (some) ass idiom
- parking ticket noun
- penal adjective (PUNISHMENT)
- penalize verb (PUNISH)
- penalty noun (PUNISHMENT)
- punish verb (CRIME)
- punishable adjective
- sentence noun (PUNISHMENT)
- skin sb alive idiom
- you might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb idiom
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