Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fasten_on

1 sense of fasten on

Sense 1
take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on -- (adopt; "take up new ideas")
       => espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up -- (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith")