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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



... be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves at the foot of the throne, and implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical bands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... ordeal Herodotus underwent. His chronicles were not dissertations to be coldly pondered over, and skeptically conned; they were read aloud at solemn festivals to listening thousands: they were to arrest the curiosity—to amuse the impatience—to stir the wonder of a lively and motley crowd. Thus the historian imbibed naturally the spirit of the tale-teller, as he was driven to embellish his history with the romantic legend—the awful superstition—the gossipy anecdote—which yet ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... park. It is a pretty place in summer—a varied surface, well planted with forest and ornamental trees, intersected by a winding stream. The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. Leaden clouds covered the sky, and only in the west ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... three essentials which the wisdom of our ancestors has made indispensable previous to the arrest or imprisonment of the meanest Briton; it must appear, that there is a crime committed, that the person to be seized is suspected of having committed it, and that the suspicion is founded upon probability. Requisites so reasonable in their own ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. - Parlimentary Debates II. • Samuel Johnson

... drama was over, however, an accident occurred, in full view of the moving picture camera. Mrs. Betty Randolph, a wealthy Southern lady, was run into, while riding in her carriage, by a reckless autoist. Mrs. Randolph offered a reward for the arrest of this man, who escaped in the confusion, and urged the two boys to try ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast • Victor Appleton


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