arrest
verb (used with object)
to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody.
am arresting
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present progressiveof arrest (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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But there must be cops who say, “I’m doing my job. I am pursuing the law, and I am arresting people who need to be arrested.”
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2019
"I am arresting you on my own responsibility," Field said curtly.
From The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
I am arresting you on the charge of not being the celebrated anarchist, Professor de Worms.'
From The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
