What does Arrest mean?
Definitions for Arrest
əˈrɛstar·rest
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Arrest.
Princeton's WordNet
apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custodynoun
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
"the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppageverb
the state of inactivity following an interruption
"the negotiations were in arrest"; "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"
collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold backverb
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
"Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
catch, arrest, getverb
attract and fix
"His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
halt, hold, arrestverb
cause to stop
"Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
Wiktionary
arrestnoun
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
arrestnoun
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
arrestnoun
The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
arrestnoun
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
arrestnoun
A device to physically arrest motion.
arrestverb
To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
arrestverb
To stay, remain.
arrestverb
To stop (a process, course etc.).
arrestverb
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
arrestverb
To catch the attention of.
Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Arrestnoun
Etymology: from arrester, Fr. to stop.
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for my creditors; yet I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.
To the rich man, who had promised himself ease for many years, it was a sad arrest, that his soul was surprised the first night. Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living.
The stop and arrest of the air sheweth, that the air hath little appetite of ascending. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 24.
Arrestnoun
In horsemanship. A mangey humour between the ham and pastern of the hinder legs of a horse. Dict.
To ARRESTverb
Etymology: arrester, Fr. to stop.
Good tidings, my lord Hastings, for the which
I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.Well, well; there’s one yonder arrested, and carried to prison, was worth five thousand of you all. William Shakespeare, Meas. for M.
He hath enjoyed nothing of Ford’s but twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to master Brook; his horses are arrested for it. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
But when as Morpheus had with leaden maze
Arrested all that goodly company. Fairy Queen, b. i.Age itself, which, of all things in the world, will not be baffled or defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
This defect of the English justice was the main impediment that did arrest and stop the course of the conquest. John Davies.
As often as my dogs with better speed
Arrest her flight, is she to death decreed. John Dryden, Fables.Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows
Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand
Of death arrest. Philips.To manifest the coagulative power, we have arrested the fluidity of new milk, and turned it into a curdled substance. Boyle.
Wikipedia
Arrest
An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questioned further and/or charged. An arrest is a procedure in a criminal justice system, sometimes it is also done after a court warrant for the arrest. Police and various other officers have powers of arrest. In some places, a citizen's arrest is permitted; for example in England and Wales, any person can arrest "anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing, have committed or be guilty of committing an indictable offence", although certain conditions must be met before taking such action. Similar powers exist in France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland if a person is caught in an act of crime and not willing or able to produce valid ID. As a safeguard against the abuse of power, many countries require that an arrest must be made for a thoroughly justified reason, such as the requirement of probable cause in the United States. Furthermore, in most democracies, the time that a person can be detained in custody is relatively short (in most cases 24 hours in the United Kingdom and 24 or 48 hours in the United States and France) before the detained person must be either charged or released.
ChatGPT
arrest
Arrest is the act carried out by law enforcement officers or legal authorities where an individual is taken into custody or detention, typically because they are suspected or accused of committing a crime. This process usually involves the restriction of the person's freedom and is followed by charges, legal questioning, or a criminal investigation.
Webster Dictionary
Arrestverb
to stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses
Arrestverb
to take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime
Arrestverb
to seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention
Arrestverb
to rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate
Arrestverb
to tarry; to rest
Arrestverb
the act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development
Arrestverb
the taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant
Arrestverb
any seizure by power, physical or moral
Arrestverb
a scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails
Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]
Wikidata
Arrest
An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the purported investigation or prevention of crime and presenting to a procedure as part of the criminal justice system. The term is Anglo-Norman in origin and is related to the French word arrêt, meaning "stop". Arrest, when used in its ordinary and natural sense, means the apprehension of a person or the deprivation of a person's liberty. The question whether the person is under arrest or not depends not on the legality of the arrest, but on whether the person has been deprived of personal liberty of movement. When used in the legal sense in the procedure connected with criminal offences, an arrest consists in the taking into custody of another person under authority empowered by law, to be held or detained to answer a criminal charge or to prevent the commission of a criminal or further offence. The essential elements to constitute an arrest in the above sense are that there must be an intent to arrest under the authority, accompanied by a seizure or detention of the person in the manner known to law, which is so understood by the person arrested Police and various other bodies have powers of arrest. In some places, the power is more general; for example in England and Wales—with the notable exception of the Monarch, the head of state—any person can arrest "anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing, have committed or be guilty of committing an indictable offence", although certain conditions must be met before taking such action.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Arrest
ar-rest′, v.t. to stop: to seize: to catch the attention: to apprehend by legal authority.—n. stoppage: seizure by warrant.—adj. Arrest′able, liable to be arrested.—n. Arrestā′tion, the act of arresting: arrest.—adj. Arrest′ive, with a tendency to arrest.—n. Arrest′ment (law), detention of a person arrested till liberated on bail, or by security: (Scots law) the process which prohibits a debtor from making payment to his creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid. [O. Fr. arester—L. ad, to, restāre, to stand still.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
arrest
The suspension of an officer's duty, and restraint of his person, previous to trying him by a court martial. Seamen in Her Majesty's service cannot be arrested for debts under twenty pounds, and that contracted before they entered the navy. Yet it is held in law, that this affords no exemption from arrests either in civil or criminal suits.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
arrest
The temporary confinement of officers in barracks, quarters, or tents, pending trial by court-martial, or the consideration of their imputed offenses previous to deciding whether they shall or shall not be tried. (See Appendix, Articles of War, 65.) Private soldiers are usually placed under guard; by the custom of the service non-commissioned officers may be simply placed in arrest in quarters.
arrest
(Old Fr., now arret). A French phrase, similar in its import to the Latin word retinaculum; it consisted of a small piece of steel or iron, which was formerly used in the construction of fire-arms, to prevent the piece from going off. A familiar phrase among military men in France is, Ce pistolet est en arret, “this pistol is in arrest or is stopped.”
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Arrest' in Nouns Frequency: #1721
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Arrest' in Verbs Frequency: #458
Anagrams for Arrest »
rarest
raster
raters
starer
astrer
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Arrest in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Arrest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Arrest in a Sentence
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez:
Read MoreOfficers arrest possible serial's possible he was casing the neighborhood in search of his next victim, so thanks to the alert work of that citizen and swift action, we were able to get involved.
All these actors appear to bear some responsibility for this calamity. All seem to have a share of Mr. Epsteins blood on their hands. All should be ashamed of their behavior, i call for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Epsteins death. The public needs to know exactly what happened and why and how his custodians could have let it occur. Epsteinsdeath comes two weeks after the 66-year-old was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck.At the time, it was not clear whether the injuries were self-inflicted or from an assault. He had been taken off suicide watch before he killed himself, a person familiar with the matter told the AP.It wasnt immediately clear when he was taken off suicide watch. Jeffrey Epstein DEAD : TIMELINE OF SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AND RELATED LEGAL CASES Epstein was arrested on July 6 over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005 Epstein allegedly created and maintained a vast network and operation from 2002 up to and including at least 2005 that enabled him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage girls in addition to paying victims to recruit other girls. Prosecutors said that victims would be escorted to a room with a massage table where they would perform massages on Epstein. At the time of Epsteins arrest, prosecutors said they found a trove of pictures of nude and seminude young women and girls at his $ 77 million Manhattan Hospital mansion. They also say additional victims have come forward since the arrest. He had pleaded not guilty and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Jeffrey Epstein EPSTEINS ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM NAMED Bill Richardson, GEORGE MITCHELL IN NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS Bill Richardson deathalso comes a day after thousands of documents were unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against Bill Richardson alleged recruiter that revealed dozens of high-profile names including former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has long claimed Epstein forced her to have sex with powerful men, claimed in the lawsuit that Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, kept Ghislaine Maxwell as a.
We tracked Chhota Rajan's movements closely and informed the police in Indonesia and Australia, eventually the Indonesian police managed to arrest him. We are making arrangements to bring him to India and pursue all criminal cases against him.
Law enforcement has always acted upon it. The difference is now we are being a little more vocal about it, agencies are pushing the message out. It's not a joke. We are going to arrest you.
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- تَوقيف, اعتقل, اعتقالArabic
- приковавам, задържане, арест, хващам, арестуване, аретир, спиране, арестувам, успокоител, спирам, задържамBulgarian
- arrestCatalan, Valencian
- zatknout, zadržet, zatčeníCzech
- arestioWelsh
- arrestere, bremse, anholde, standse, pågribe, stoppeDanish
- Verhaftung, Festnahme, verhaften, festnehmen, arretieren, ArrestGerman
- συλλαμβάνω, σύλληψηGreek
- arestoEsperanto
- parar, paro, arresto, detener, detenidoSpanish
- دستگیر کردن, توقیف, دستگیریPersian
- vangita, pysähtyminen, pidättäminen, pysähdys, pidätys, pysäyttää, pidättää, pysäyttäminen, esteFinnish
- arrestation, arrêterFrench
- coisc, gabhIrish
- letartóztat, elfog, megállítHungarian
- ձերբակալել, կալանք, ձերբակալությունArmenian
- arrestareItalian
- 検挙, 逮捕する, 捕えるJapanese
- დაყოვნება, დაპატიმრება, დატუსაღება, შეჩერებაGeorgian
- urutūMāori
- хүлээлгэхMongolian
- arrest, grijpen, vatten, aanhouden, stoppen, arresteren, in hechtenis nemen, oppakken, stilstand, arrestatie, stuiten, aanhoudingDutch
- areszt, aresztować, powstrzymać, przykuć, aresztowaniePolish
- deter, prisão, parar, prenderPortuguese
- arestare, opri, arest, aresta, deține, deținereRomanian
- арестовать, арест, арестовыватьRussian
- uhićenjeSerbo-Croatian
- stoppa, bromsa, fånga, gripaSwedish
- nasaSwahili
- จับตัว, ยั้ง, จับได้Thai
- tevkif etmek, tutuklamaTurkish
- گرفتاریUrdu
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