arrest
- to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage: The loud noise arrested our attention.
- to check the course of; stop; slow down: to arrest progress.
- Medicine/Medical. to control or stop the active progress of (a disease): The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
- the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- any seizure or taking by force.
- an act of stopping or the state of being stopped: the arrest of tooth decay.
- Machinery. any device for stopping machinery; stop.
- under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities: They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime.
Origin of arrest
Synonyms for arrest
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Related Words for arrested
seizedExamples from the Web for arrested
Contemporary Examples of arrested
Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.
Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.
When the man threatened to report him for harassment to the NOPD, Farrell arrested him.
Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.
Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.
Historical Examples of arrested
This morning she was arrested by the thought that the plot she had planted was hers.
Life and Death of Harriett FreanMay Sinclair
Now, when I'm arrested for speeding, I'm not in the least flustered—oh, not a little bit!
Within the LawMarvin Dana
You were arrested in Buffalo, convicted, and served your stretch.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Does Garson know we've arrested the Turner girl and young Gilder?
Within the LawMarvin Dana
He was tired and broken, and resolved to stay in camp until they arrested him.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
arrest
- to deprive (a person) of liberty by taking him into custody, esp under lawful authority
- to seize (a ship) under lawful authority
- to slow or stop the development or progress of (a disease, growth, etc)
- to catch and hold (one's attention, sight, etc)
- arrest judgment law to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- can't get arrested informal (of a performer) is unrecognized and unsuccessfulhe can't get arrested here but is a megastar in the States
- the act of taking a person into custody, esp under lawful authority
- the act of seizing and holding a ship under lawful authority
- the state of being held, esp under lawful authorityunder arrest
- Also called: arrestation (ˌærɛsˈteɪʃən) the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- the stopping or sudden cessation of motion of somethinga cardiac arrest
Word Origin for arrest
Word Origin and History for arrested
1610s, past participle adjective from arrest (v.). Arrested development is first recorded 1859 in evolutionary biology.
arrest
"to cause to stop," also "to detain legally," late 14c., from Old French arester "to stay, stop" (Modern French arrêter), from Vulgar Latin *arrestare (source of Italian arrestare, Spanish and Portuguese arrestar), from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + restare "to stop, remain behind, stay back" (see rest (n.2)). Figurative sense of "to catch and hold" (the attention, etc.) is from 1814.
arrest
late 14c., from Anglo-French arest, Old French areste, from arester (see arrest (v.)).
arrest
(ə-rĕst′)- To stop; check.
- To undergo cardiac arrest.
- An interference with or a checking of the regular course of a disease or symptom, a stoppage.
- Interference with the performance of a function.
- The inhibition of a developmental process, usually the ultimate stage of development.
Idioms and Phrases with arrested
arrest
see under arrest.