arrest
verb (used with object)
to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody.
arrested
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past participleof arrest.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 arrest.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
arrestverb (used with object)to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody.
Example Sentences
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Tapia, a 26-year-old Moorpark resident was arrested on Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Two other senior CJP leaders, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, were arrested on October 14 after entering Jantar Mantar, a decades-old protest site that police have declared off-limits for demonstrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused of submitting to an artificial intelligence chatbot to program a recording device hidden in an OpenAI conference room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
One such case is Leonid Melekhin, an anti-war activist who sought asylum in the US after being arrested at protests in Russia.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The man who arrested me leaves, replaced by another man, also not in uniform.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
