Arrest

Quick meaning: Arrest is a noun meaning A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

Meaning

A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

More Meanings

1. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
2. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
3. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
4. A device to physically arrest motion.
5. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
6. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

Example Sentences

cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest

State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.

An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.

A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.

Word Forms

• arrests
• arresting
• arrested

Synonyms for arrest

Depending on context, synonyms include freeze, halt, cease, discontinue, apprehend, seize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nab, apprehend, apprehension, get, pick up, catch.

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