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(apprehended) adjective
captured, caught, collared, committed, confined, constrained, detained, held, held in custody, immurred, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned, jailed, kept in custody, legally restrained, made captive, made prisoner, remanded, remanded into custody, restrained, seized, sent to prison, taken by force by the authorities, taken into custody, taken prisoner, under arrest
associated concepts: arrest warrant, body execution, civil arrest, detention and custody, false arrest, false imprisonment, habeas corpus, imprisonment, malicious prosecution, probable cause to arrest, resisting arrest, restraint of liberty, search incident to an arrest, unlawful arrest
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(checked) adjective
adjourned, blocked, bridled, circumscribed, contained, controlled, curbed, deferred, delayed, deterred, discouraged, encumbered, governed, hampered, held back, hindered, impeded, inhibited, interrupted, limited, obstructed, postponed, prescribed, prevented, repressed, restrained, restricted, retarded, slowed down, stayed, stopped, suppressed, suspended, withheld
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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arrested — (adj.) 1610s, pp. adjective from ARREST (Cf. arrest) (v.). Arrested development is first recorded 1859 in evolutionary biology … Etymology dictionary
arrested — arrested; un·arrested; … English syllables
arrested — adjective : showing cessation of growth or activity arrested tuberculous activity arrested development … Useful english dictionary
Arrested — Arrest Ar*rest , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arrested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Arresting}.] [OE. aresten, OF. arester, F. arr[^e]ter, fr. LL. arrestare; L. ad + restare to remain, stop; re + stare to stand. See {Rest} remainder.] 1. To stop; to check or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
arrested — ar·rest·ed (ə restґəd) detained; stopped. In obstetrics, the head of the fetus is said to be arrested when it is detained, but not impacted, in the pelvic cavity … Medical dictionary
arrested — adj. Arrested is used with these nouns: ↑development … Collocations dictionary
arrested — adjective Having been stopped or prevented from developing … Wiktionary
arrested — Synonyms and related words: babbling, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blithering, blocked, bridled, burbling, callow, caught, charmed, checked, coarse, constrained, controlled, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous,… … Moby Thesaurus
arrested — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. seized, taken into custody, jailed; see under arrest , arrest … English dictionary for students
arrested — adj. delayed, halted, inhibited; detained, imprisoned ar·rest || É™ rest n. detention; imprisonment v. detain; delay, slow down, stop; imprison … English contemporary dictionary