# arrest
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- +‎ rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /əˈɹɛst/
* Hyphenation: ar‧rest
* Rhymes: -ɛst
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests)
* A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
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* The condition of being stopped, standstill.
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* (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
    State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
* A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
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* A device to physically arrest motion.
* (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
* (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
** 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
* (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

#### Derived terms

* aperest
* arrestin
* arrest warrant
* cardiac arrest
* cardiopulmonary arrest
* citizen's arrest
* de-arrest
* dearrest
* false arrest
* growth arrest line
* house arrest
* nonarrest
* postarrest
* prearrest
* resisting arrest
* self-arrest
* unarrest
* under arrest
* warrant of arrest

#### Translations

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### Verb

arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)
* (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). [14th–19th c.]
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
** 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 11:Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;
** 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 86:Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’
* (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th–16th c.]
** 1538, John Leland, Itineraries:A white Starre […] whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
* (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
** 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 707:To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
** 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
* (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
    The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:I arrest thee of high treason.
** 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.
* (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
** 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
    There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
* (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
** 2004, Euan A. Ashley, Josef Niebauer, Cardiology Explained, page 66:Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.

#### Synonyms

* (to stop the motion of): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
* (to stay):
* (to stop or slow a process): cease, discontinue; See also Thesaurus:desist
* (to seize someone): apprehend, seize; See also Thesaurus:capture
* (to catch the attention of): attract, dazzle, engage, entice; See also Thesaurus:allure

#### Derived terms

* aperest (ethnic slur)
* arrestability
* arrestable
* arrestee
* arrester, arrestor
* arresting
* arrestive
* arrestment
* arrest-me-red
* dearrest
* rearrest
* unarrest

#### Related terms

* arrestation

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ 1817, James White, A Compendious Dictionary of the Veterinary Art.

### Anagrams

* Arters, arrêts, rarest, raster, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

## Catalan
### Noun

arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos)
* arrest

#### Derived terms

* ordre d'arrest

## Danish
### Etymology

Via German Arrest from Middle French arrest (“arrest”) (French arrêt), derived from the verb arrester (“to hold back, arrest”) (arrêter), borrowed to Danish arrestere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈʁasd̥], [aˈʁɑsd̥]

### Noun

arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester)
* arrest (the process of holding back a suspect)
* confinement, detention (a short-time prison)

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑˈrɛst/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ar‧rest
* Rhymes: -ɛst

### Noun

arrest n (plural arresten, diminutive arrestje n)
* (law) sentence passed by a higher court
* (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling
* (law, historical) detention, confinement, especially after being arrested

#### Derived terms

* huisarrest
* kamerarrest
* stadsarrest

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: ares
* Negerhollands: arrest

### Anagrams

* raster, terras

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arresto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arˈrɛst/
* Audio (Gozo):(file)

### Noun

arrest m (plural arresti)
* arrest, detention

#### Related terms

* arresta

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old French arester.

### Noun

arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrester, definite plural arrestene)
* arrest, custody, detention

#### Derived terms

* husarrest
* politiarrest

#### Related terms

* arrestasjon
* arrestere

### References

* “arrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old French arester.

### Noun

arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrestar, definite plural arrestane)
* arrest, custody, detention

#### Derived terms

* husarrest
* politiarrest

#### Related terms

* arrestasjon
* arrestere

### References

* “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Noun

arrest c
* a location with holding cells or the like for temporarily detaining people (usually at a police station)
    Synonym: (slang) kurra
    sitta i arrestenbe in the holding cell area / (by implication) be in custody
* arrest, custody, detention
    husarresthouse arrest

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | arrest | arrests |
| singular | definite | arresten | arrestens |
| plural | indefinite | arrester | arresters |
| plural | definite | arresterna | arresternas |

#### Related terms

* arrestera

#### See also

* häkte

### References

* arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* arrest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* arters, estrar, raster, tsarer