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ar⋅rest⋅ing

  [uh-res-ting]
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–adjective
1. attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking: an arresting smile.
2. making or having made an arrest: the arresting officer.
Origin:
arrest + -ing 2

Related forms:
ar⋅rest⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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ar⋅rest

  [uh-rest]
–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.
ar·rest·ing   (ə-rěs'tĭng)   
adj.  Attracting and holding the attention; striking. See Synonyms at noticeable.
ar·rest'ing·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

arrest  (v.)
"to cause to stop," 1375, from O.Fr. arester "to stay, stop," from V.L. *arrestare, from L. ad- "to" + restare "to stop, remain behind, stay back," from re- "back" + stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Meaning "detain legally" is first recorded 1375. Fig. sense of "to catch and hold (the attention, etc.)" is from 1814; arresting in this sense is from 1792.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: 2arrest
Function: transitive verb
: to place under arrest —ar·rest·er also ar·res·tor noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2arrest
Function: noun
: the condition of being stopped arrest> —see CARDIAC ARREST; —compare CURE 1, REMISSION
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Medical Dictionary

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

  1. To stop; check.

  2. To undergo cardiac arrest.

n.

  1. An interference with or a checking of the regular course of a disease or symptom, a stoppage.

  2. Interference with the performance of a function.

  3. The inhibition of a developmental process, usually the ultimate stage of development.

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