Definitions for arrest
əˈrɛstar·rest

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb

   take into custody

   "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

4. 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"

5. catch, arrest, getverb

   attract and fix

   "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"

6. halt, hold, arrestverb

   cause to stop

   "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. arrestnoun

   A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

2. arrestnoun

   The condition of being stopped, standstill.

3. arrestnoun

   The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

4. arrestnoun

   A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

5. arrestnoun

   A device to physically arrest motion.

6. arrestverb

   To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

7. arrestverb

   To stay, remain.

8. arrestverb

   To stop (a process, course etc.).

9. arrestverb

   To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

10. arrestverb

    To catch the attention of.

11. Etymology: From arester, from *, from ad- + restare, from re- + stare, from steh₂-.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Arrestnoun

   Etymology: from arrester, Fr. to stop.

   1. In law.A stop or stay; as, a man apprehended for debt, is said to be arrested. To plead in arrest of judgment, is to shew cause why judgment should be stayed, though the verdict of the twelve be passed. To plead in arrest of taking the inquest upon the former issue, is to shew cause why an inquest should not be taken. An arrest is a certain restraint of a man’s person, depriving him of his own will, and binding it to become obedient to the will of the law, and may be called the beginning of imprisonment. John Cowell

   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.

   2. Any caption.

   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.

   3. A stop.

   The stop and arrest of the air sheweth, that the air hath little appetite of ascending. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 24.

2. Arrestnoun

   In horsemanship. A mangey humour between the ham and pastern of the hinder legs of a horse. Dict.

3. To ARRESTverb

   Etymology: arrester, Fr. to stop.

   1. To seize by a mandate from a court or officer of justice. See Arrest.

   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.

   2. To seize any thing by law.

   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.

   3. To seize; to lay hands on.

   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.

   4. To with-hold; to hinder.

   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.

   5. To stop motion.

   To manifest the coagulative power, we have arrested the fluidity of new milk, and turned it into a curdled substance. Boyle.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Arrestverb

   to stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses

2. Arrestverb

   to take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime

3. Arrestverb

   to seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention

4. Arrestverb

   to rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate

5. Arrestverb

   to tarry; to rest

6. Arrestverb

   the act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development

7. Arrestverb

   the taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant

8. Arrestverb

   any seizure by power, physical or moral

9. Arrestverb

   a scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails

10. Etymology: [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arrt.]

Freebase(1.92 / 13 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.

2. 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.”

Matched Categories

1. • Attract
   • Defend
   • Stop

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'arrest' in Nouns Frequency: #1721

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'arrest' in Verbs Frequency: #458

Anagrams for arrest »

1. rarest

2. raster

3. raters

4. starer

5. astrer

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of arrest in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of arrest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of arrest in a Sentence

1. Mark Galeotti:

   Arresting a foreign spy is the last option, you would rather turn them or watch who they are taking to, why did they decide to arrest this guy ? Did they think they would be about to return to Russia ? Was it because there was a risk that he was going to stumble across something important ?

2. Albert Fox:

   When we talk about the number of facial recognition scans unfolding in the United States every day, we don't even know the full number, you can have people who are being sent to jail wrongly who never know that facial recognition played a role in their arrest.

3. Abdulraouf Kara:

   When we try to arrest them we are told that they are 'thuwwar', we are asked to release them every day.

4. Jessica Molina:

   They came into my house, breaking the door. ... They pointed guns at me and my husband, and when they saw that I was an American citizen, I thought, 'They're going to kill me', they took him without an arrest warrant, even though he showed them he was working all day in his garage in Laredo, Texas.

5. Chief Deputy Sykes:

   The arrangement all of our area law enforcement agencies have with hospital police of ensuring the eventual arrest of a suspect after the suspect receives medical care, has been in place for decades, i can not remember another time when it has failed.

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