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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



... highroad some distance above us, and it gave me heart to see how blown their animals were. But the cavalier, catching sight of us, spurred his jaded beast and advanced, crying out loudly, "Surrender, Edmond Le Blanc! I arrest you in ...
— For The Admiral • W.J. Marx
... a Texan constable going to arrest a murderer. He asked us what o'clock it was, as he had not a watch, and told us that a few minutes' ride would bring us to Boston, a new Texan city. We searched in vain for any vestiges which could ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat
... on well-guard filled their water jars with a cheerful "Saida bint"—"Good day, maiden." A knowledge of Arabic by the way was an acquisition on which every man prided himself; and the writer lost much ground in the estimation of his batman for his refusal to arrest a wandering member of the Egyptian Labour Corps, whom that zealous youth asserted to be a German spy, "because he could not understand Egyptian." The el Arish children were as friendly and talkative ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... obliging peeler Will arrest this midnight squealer, My own peculiar arm of might ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray
... that Lady Beltham was not dead: another woman had been buried in her place. He preserved absolute silence convinced that sooner or later this criminal great lady—for, in conjunction with Fantomas, she had committed abominable crimes—would reappear, and he could then arrest her. Time had passed, but for all his efforts Juve could not discover the hiding-place of this ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre


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