affix
verb (used with object)
to fasten, join, or attach (usually followed byto ).
affixed
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past participleof affix.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof affix.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
affixverb (used with object)to fasten, join, or attach (usually followed byto ).
Example Sentences
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Upon examining the man’s papers, the British soldier “notices that the Wehrmacht stamp is smudged. Below it there appears to be a trace of a previously affixed rubber stamp.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
On a chilly day in March, a twice-deported Romanian national walked into a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio, and secretly affixed a device called a skimmer to a credit card machine, prosecutors say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
They had transformed themselves from the ridiculed Clip Joint to a top-shelf NBA organization, but they now have been affixed with a scarlet eight letters that will follow them forever: cheaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
At the factory in Yiwu, China's wholesale hub in the east of the country, workers affixed chains to the blue and white Messi "goats", which are designed to be attached to bags.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
A name was written on a scrap of fabric affixed to the crown —James.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
