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arrest
[ uh-rest ]
verb (used with object)
- to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody:
The police arrested the burglar.
Synonyms: apprehend
- to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage:
The loud noise arrested our attention.
- to check the course of; stop; slow down:
to arrest progress.
Synonyms: stay
- Medicine/Medical. to control or stop the active progress of (a disease):
The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
noun
- the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
Synonyms: imprisonment, apprehension, detention
- any seizure or taking by force.
- an act of stopping or the state of being stopped:
the arrest of tooth decay.
- Machinery. any device for stopping machinery; stop.
arrest
/ əˈrɛst /
verb
- to deprive (a person) of liberty by taking him into custody, esp under lawful authority
- to seize (a ship) under lawful authority
- to slow or stop the development or progress of (a disease, growth, etc)
- to catch and hold (one's attention, sight, etc)
- arrest judgmentlaw to stay proceedings after a verdict, on the grounds of error or possible error
- can't get arrested informal.(of a performer) is unrecognized and unsuccessful
he can't get arrested here but is a megastar in the States
noun
- the act of taking a person into custody, esp under lawful authority
- the act of seizing and holding a ship under lawful authority
- the state of being held, esp under lawful authority
under arrest
- Also calledarrestationˌærɛsˈteɪʃən the slowing or stopping of the development or progress of something
- the stopping or sudden cessation of motion of something
a cardiac arrest
Other Words From
- ar·resta·ble adjective
- ar·restment noun
- postar·rest adjective
- prear·rest verb (used with object)
- prear·restment noun
- rear·rest verb (used with object) noun
- unar·resta·ble adjective
- unar·rested adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of arrest1
Idioms and Phrases
- under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities:
They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime.
More idioms and phrases containing arrest
see under arrest .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.
The Moscow protest was not sanctioned, which meant every participant risked arrest.
He was told he could go back home to his house arrest to celebrate the New Year with his wife and their two children.
When two NYPD lieutenants intervened, police say Linsker put the trash can down but resisted arrest.
Sullivan has by then moved in to help and he seeks to complete the arrest of the first man.
The crowd dispersed, disappointed; cheated out of their anticipated scene of an arrest for horse-stealing.
He knew that Longcluse had still two executions against him, on which, at any moment, he might arrest him.
He told Horner you'd bin shot resistin' arrest, an' wanted t' see her afore yuh cashed in.
That accomplished, I shall arrest the Dowager and her son and every jackanapes within that castle.
Fresh Commissioners came from the Assembly, and it was only their fortunate recall to Paris that saved the general from arrest.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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