Arrest

/əˈɹɛst/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest

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

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

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

Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;

Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’

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

1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

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• arrests
• arresting
• arrested

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