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arrest — ar·rest 1 /ə rest/ n [Middle French arest, from arester to stop, seize, arrest, ultimately from Latin ad to, at + restare to stay]: the restraining and seizure of a person whether or not by physical force by someone acting under authority (as a… … Law dictionary
arrest — I n. detention 1) to make an arrest 2) to resist arrest 3) a citizen s; false arrest; house arrest 4) an arrest for, on charges of (to make an arrest for murder) 5) under arrest (to be under arrest; to place/put smb. under arrest) stoppage 6) a… … Combinatory dictionary
arrest — 1 verb (T) 1 if the police arrest you, they take you away because they think you have done something illegal: Police arrested 26 demonstrators, over half of them women. | arrest sb for sth: Wayne was arrested for dangerous driving. 2 formal to… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
arrest — I UK [əˈrest] / US verb [transitive] Word forms arrest : present tense I/you/we/they arrest he/she/it arrests present participle arresting past tense arrested past participle arrested ** 1) if the police arrest someone, they take that person to a … English dictionary
arrest — ar|rest1 [ ə rest ] verb transitive ** 1. ) if the police arrest someone, they take that person to a police station because they believe he or she has committed a crime. Someone who has been arrested is under arrest, and if they are not allowed… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Arrest — For other uses, see Arrest (disambiguation). Lucy Parsons after her arrest for rioting during an unemployment protest at Hull House in Chicago, Illinois. 1915 … Wikipedia
arrest*/*/ — [əˈrest] verb [T] I 1) if the police arrest someone, they take that person to a police station because they think that he or she has committed a crime Police raided the building and arrested six men.[/ex] He was arrested for possession of illegal … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
arrest — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abduction, absorb, absorb the attention, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, apprehend, apprehension … Moby Thesaurus
arrest — vb 1 Arrest, check, interrupt mean to stop in mid course. Arrest implies a holding fixed in the midst of movement, development, or progress and usually a prevention of further advance until someone or something effects a release {arrest the… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
arrest of judgment — arrest of judg·ment [arrest stoppage]: a judge s stopping of a judgment because of a defect (as that the acts proven do not constitute a crime) for which the judgment could be reversed Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996.… … Law dictionary
