FASTEN ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fasten on mean? 

• FASTEN ON (verb)
  The verb FASTEN ON has 1 sense:

1. adopt

  Familiarity information: FASTEN ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTEN ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adopt

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

fasten on; hook on; latch on; seize on; take up

Context example:

take up new ideas

Hypernyms (to "fasten on" is one way to...):

adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)