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Arrest   /ərˈɛst/   Listen
Arrest

noun
1.
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).  Synonyms: apprehension, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody.
2.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage.  "Held them in check" , "During the halt he got some lunch" , "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow" , "He spent the entire stop in his seat"
verb
(past & past part. arrested; pres. part. arresting)
1.
Take into custody.  Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up.
2.
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.  Synonyms: check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back.  "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism"
3.
Attract and fix.  Synonyms: catch, get.  "She caught his eye" , "Catch the attention of the waiter"
4.
Cause to stop.  Synonyms: halt, hold.  "Arrest the progress" , "Halt the presses"



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"Arrest" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment's silence, and I asked his two liveried servants who were standing by me why they had not helped their master. One said he owed him six months' wages, and the other said he wanted to arrest him ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... financial difficulties of constructing a railway in Spain were added to by the strange kind of people Mr. Brassey's agents were obliged to employ. One of the sub-contractors was a certain Carlist chief whom the government dared not arrest on account of his great influence. Mr. Tapp thus relates the Carlist chief's mode of ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... was then unfastened and the burglars stepped out only to be immediately handcuffed and carried away to prison, sullenly submitting to their arrest because they saw that ...
— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley
... seventeen times by experienced astronomers prior to Herschel. In each case the planetary nature of the object had been overlooked, and it had been taken for granted that it was a star. It presented no difference which was sufficient to arrest attention. ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball
... Wee Willie Winkie reflected for a moment on the very terrible wrath of his father; and then—broke his arrest! It was a crime unspeakable. The low sun threw his shadow, very large and very black, on the trim garden-paths, as he went down to the stables and ordered his pony. It seemed to him in the hush of the dawn that all the ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling


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