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[uh-rest]

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verb (used with object)

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.

noun

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.

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Idiom

under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities: They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime.

Origin:
1275–1325; (v.) Middle English aresten < Anglo-French, Middle French arester, < Vulgar Latin *arrestāre to stop (see ar-, rest²); (noun) Middle English arest(e) < Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of v.

Related forms

ar·rest·a·ble, adjective

ar·rest·ment, noun

post·ar·rest, adjective

pre·ar·rest, verb (used with object)

pre·ar·rest·ment, noun

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re·ar·rest, verb (used with object), noun

un·ar·rest·a·ble, adjective

un·ar·rest·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
1. apprehend. 2. secure, rivet, occupy. 3. stay. See stop. 5. detention, apprehension, imprisonment. 7. stoppage, halt, stay, check.

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Example Sentences

O'Neill issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of.

The second minor scandal was yet another high profile arrest of a football player-this time for bar fighting.

England cannot arrest and jail its way out of this social malaise.

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O'Neill issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of.

The second minor scandal was yet another high profile arrest of a football player-this time for bar fighting.

England cannot arrest and jail its way out of this social malaise.

Troopers arrest an armed and dangerous man at gunpoint after tasing him.

Another died shortly after exposure, likely due to cardiac arrest.

Simpson eventually returns to his home, where police arrest him.

You're unconscious, suffering from cardiac arrest on the floor of a shopping mall.

It took investigators barely two days after the failed bomb attack to arrest a suspect in the case.

He desperately tries to find out what triggered his arrest and what's in store for him.

After she had a medical operation this month, she was granted house arrest.

We need to arrest it before it reaches a tipping point.

Notice that this idea is not limiting involvement of the authorities to exercise of police power to arrest and imprison.

Park rangers risk their lives to catch and arrest poachers before they wipe out entire.

Just a few years ago, satellite tracking of convicts was a newfangled alternative to house arrest.

Another objective measure is arrest records and incarceration records.

Police say they killed only a few dealers who resisted arrest.

Cardiac arrest and irregularities, burns, and nerve damage are common in cases where people are struck by lightning.

If you guys want to see the body, get law enforcement to arrest them and take possession of it.

In fact, the university is not requesting access to arrest histories.

They are also subject to arrest if they have male relatives hiding from the authorities.

Notice the one of the main way for them to arrest small time drug users is threw a traffic stop.

Various bad influences had put her in a downward spiral until she ended up under arrest and facing jail.

I'd used my cell phone on the day of our arrest to call my office.

They won't arrest you for possessing marijuana or ganja or something else, but you're still not allowed to have it.

When the police arrest a murderer, they do not kill him or her on the spot.

But changes at ground level-the soldiers'-eye views-may be harder to arrest.

Having been denied it, killing three people and then meekly submitting to arrest was a suitable alternative.

Break out the briefcase-size device, in any remote village, and get in a few calls home before they arrest you as a covert agent.

He said this at at a briefing of the media last year after the arrest of a number of suspects around the country.

It makes it hard to track and arrest suspected poachers.

If you move through someone else's land, they can arrest you and throw you in jail.

He saved his own life, but he was convicted of heresy, and condemned to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.

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World English Dictionary

arrest (əˈrɛst)

—vb
1.	to deprive (a person) of liberty by taking him into custody, esp under lawful authority
2.	to seize (a ship) under lawful authority
3.	to slow or stop the development or progress of (a disease, growth, etc)
4.	to catch and hold (one's attention, sight, etc)
5.	law arrest judgment to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
6.	informal can't get arrested (of a performer) is unrecognized and unsuccessful: he can't get arrested here but is a megastar in the States

—n
7.	the act of taking a person into custody, esp under lawful authority
8.	the act of seizing and holding a ship under lawful authority
9.	the state of being held, esp under lawful authority: under arrest
10.	Also called: arrestation the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
11.	the stopping or sudden cessation of motion of something: a cardiac arrest

[C14: from Old French arester, from Vulgar Latin arrestāre (unattested), from Latin ad at, to + restāre to stand firm, stop]

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Word Origin & History

arrest

"to cause to stop," also "to detain legally," late 14c., from O.Fr. arester "to stay, stop," from V.L. *arrestare (cf. It. arrestare, Sp., Port. arrestar), from L. ad- "to" + restare "to stop, remain behind, stay back," from re- "back" + stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see

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stet). Fig. sense of "to catch and hold" (the attention, etc.) is from 1814.

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Medical Dictionary

arrest ar·rest (ə-rěst')
v. ar·rest·ed, ar·rest·ing, ar·rests

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.

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