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ar⋅rest

  [uh-rest]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
2. to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage: The loud noise arrested our attention.
3. to check the course of; stop; slow down: to arrest progress.
4. Medicine/Medical. to control or stop the active progress of (a disease): The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
–noun
5. the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
6. any seizure or taking by force.
7. an act of stopping or the state of being stopped: the arrest of tooth decay.
8. Machinery. any device for stopping machinery; stop.
—Idiom
9. 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.) ME aresten < AF, MF arester, < VL *arrestāre to stop (see ar-, rest 2 ); (n.) ME arest(e) < AF, OF, n. deriv. of v.

Related forms:
ar⋅rest⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ar⋅rest⋅ment, noun

Synonyms:
1. apprehend. 2. secure, rivet, occupy. 3. stay. See stop. 5. detention, apprehension, imprisonment. 7. stoppage, halt, stay, check.
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ar·rest   (ə-rěst')   
v.   ar·rest·ed, ar·rest·ing, ar·rests

v.   tr.
  1. To stop; check: a brake that automatically arrests motion; arrested the growth of the tumor.
  2. To seize and hold under the authority of law.
  3. To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.
v.   intr.
To undergo cardiac arrest: The patient arrested en route to the hospital.
n.  
    1. The act of detaining in legal custody: the arrest of a criminal suspect.
    2. The state of being so detained: a criminal under arrest.
  2. A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part.
  3. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped.

[Middle English aresten, from Old French arester, from Vulgar Latin *arrestāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin restāre, to stand still (re-, re- + stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots).]
ar·rest'a·ble adj., ar·rest'er, ar·res'tor n., ar·rest'ment n.
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