Contact and joining
Synonyms for fasten
Synonyms for fasten: fix and tighten. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fasten
Interchangeable with fasten in this sense
Audited under fasten's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fasten carries in that sense.
- fixverb, in the sense "cause to be firmly attached"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fasten as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- tightentighten is a verb in the sense "make tight or tighter"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under fasten and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
cause to be firmly attached
Fasten the lock onto the door.
The true synonym
fix
Same sentence, swapped: Fix the lock onto the door.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for fasten in the sentence quoted.
- unfasten
- insert
- tack
Where fasten turns up in the game
fasten is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fasten is the trap
- suspendverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is freeze, in the sense "stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it", with fasten sitting one tile away.
- tightenverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is stiffen, in the sense "severely restrict in scope or extent", and fasten is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play fasten
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fasten reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fasten carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.