fasten · verb
Meanings and examples
To close or secure something so that it stays in place.
Please fasten your seat belt before the driver starts the car.
She fastened the necklace behind her neck and looked in the mirror.
The child is learning to fasten the buttons on his own coat.
He fastened the gate carefully so that the dog could not get out.
Forms
- fasten base form
- fastens third-person singular present
- fastened past tense; past participle
- fastening present participle