arrest
IPA: ɝˈɛst
noun
- A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
- (transitive) To catch the attention of.
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
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Examples of "arrest" in Sentences
- The police arrested the crook.
- The police arrest the kidnappers.
- The police arrest him and his cronies.
- The deserter was arrested by the police.
- The police arrive and arrest the thieves.
- The plastered man was arrested by the police.
- The police arrested him for indecent exposure.
- The pimp was arrested by the police last night.
- The recidivist is arrested last night by the police.
- The event was unfortunately discovered and the guilty arrested.
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