fasten

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To attach firmly to something else, as by pinning or nailing.
2. v. To make fast or secure.
3. v. To close, as by fixing firmly in place.
4. v. To fix or direct steadily: fastened her gaze on the stranger.
5. v. To place; attribute: fastened the blame on the weather.
6. v. To impose (oneself) without welcome.
7. v. To become attached, fixed, or joined.
8. v. To take firm hold; cling fast: fasten on a notion.
9. v. To focus steadily; concentrate: All eyes fastened on the speaker.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make fast; cause to adhere; join, connect, or attach firmly; fix or secure in place or position by any physical means: as, to fasten a door with a lock, bolt, or chain; to fasten boards together with nails or screws, or by mortise and tenon; to fasten clothing with buttons, pins, clasps, etc.
2. Figuratively, to attach or unite by any connecting link or agency; connect or join firmly in general: as, to fasten a nickname or a charge upon one; to fasten one's hope on a promise.
3. To make firm or stable; establish; confirm; clench: as, to fasten a bargain.
4. To lay on; cause to reach.
5. = Syn 1 and To bind, attach, tie, link, affix, annex.
6. To become fast or fixed; become attached or firmly joined; close firmly.
7. To take firm hold; cling: generally with on.
8. n. A Middle English form of fast.

Wiktionary

1. v. To attach or connect in a secure manner.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.
2. v. 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
3. v. obsolete To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on.
4. v. To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become fixed or fastened
2. v. make tight or tighter
3. v. attach to
4. v. cause to be firmly attached