[uh-rest] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9. | under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities: They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime. |
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.
under arrest
In police custody, as in They put him under arrest and charged him with stealing a car. [Late 1300s]