1. (v.t.)arrest to seize (a person) by legal authority; take into custody.
2. arrest to catch and hold; engage: A noise arrested our attention.
3. arrest to check the course of; stop: to arrest a disease.
4. (n.)arrest the taking of a person into legal custody, as by the police.
5. arrest any seizure or taking by force.
6. arrest an act of stopping or the state of being stopped.
Definition of 'arrest'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
2. (verb)arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage the state of inactivityfollowing 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"
3. (verb)collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop take into custody "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
4. (verb)check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back 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"
5. (verb)catch, arrest, get attract and fix "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
6. (verb)halt, hold, arrest cause to stop "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
1. (verb)arrest (of police) to take sb to a police station for having committed a crime They arrested him for the murder.; He was arrested on charges of theft.
2. arrest to stop a process drugs that arrest development of the cancer cells
3. (noun)arrest the action of arresting sb Police have made an arrest.
4. arrest under arrest being kept in jail Three men are under arrest for the crime.
Definition of 'arrest'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)arrest to stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses
2. (verb)arrest to take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime
3. (verb)arrest to seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention
4. (verb)arrest to rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate
5. (verb)arrest to tarry; to rest
6. (verb)arrest the act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development
7. (verb)arrest the taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant
8. (verb)arrest any seizure by power, physical or moral
9. (verb)arrest a scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails
Definitions of arrest 
Afrikaans: arresteer
Arabic: يَعْتَقِل، يَقْبِض عَلى، 
Bulgarian: задържам
Brazilian: prender
Czech: zatknout
German: verhaften
Danish: arrestere; anholde
Greek: συλλαμβάνω
Spanish: detener, arrestar, captur
Estonian: vahistama
Farsi: بازداشت کردن؛ توقیف کردن
Finnish: pidättää
French: arrêter
Hebrew: לַעֲצוֹר
Hindi: गिरफ्तार करना
Croatian: uhititi
Hungarian: letartóztat
Indonesian: menangkap
Icelandic: handtaka
Italian: arrestare
Japanese: 逮捕する
Korean: 체포하다
Lithuanian: areštuoti
Latvian: arestēt
Malay: tangkap
Dutch: arresteren
Norwegian: arrestere, fengsle
Polish: aresztować
Persian: بازداشت کردن؛ توقیف کردن
Pashto: توقیف کول، محاصره کول ، ن
Portuguese: prender
Romanian: a aresta
Russian: арестовывать
Slovak: zatknúť
Slovenian: prijeti
Serbian: hapsiti
Swedish: gripa, anhålla, arrestera
Thai: จับกุม
Turkish: tutuklamak
Taiwanese: 逮捕
Ukrainian: арештувати
Urdu: گر فتار کرنا ، حراست میں 
Vietnamese: bắt giữ
Chinese: 逮捕
