arrest
verb (used with object)
to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody.
unarrestable
-
a word derived from
arrest.
Example Sentences
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To be married and sit helplessly by and see this growth slowly sprouting outward from within, enveloping the woman he loved, concealing her, dragging her down—an unarrestable disease—was that to be his fate?
From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane
