arrest

Meaning

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

seize

catch

take prisoner

take into custody

taking into custody

captivate

pound up

set-back

take hold of

take in charge

withhold information

cage in

hold in hand

put out of action

scotch

sieze

take charge of

keep in custody

shuttingdown

lay hands upon

to catch and keep

it is of four kinds:

legal restraint

brake application

imprision

phase-down

throw-out of

detention of ship

pinch.

distrain

hold fast

Frequency

Hyphenated as

ar‧rest

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈɹɛst/

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).