fasten on

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

fasten on - adopt; "take up new ideas" hook on, seize on, take up, latch on sweep up, embrace, espouse, adopt - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

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Translations

w>fasten on

vt sep → befestigen, festmachen (→ +prep obj, -to an +dat); flower, badge → anheften (→ +prep obj, -to an +dat)

vi +prep obj (= concentrate on) person, subject → herumhacken auf (+dat) (inf); his eyes fastened on mine → er heftete seine Augen auf meine

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