arrest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: farriery
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law
lifestyle
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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”).
Base: rest
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: arrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arrests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arresting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arrested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arrested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition of being stopped, standstill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
gloss: The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
gloss: A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A device to physically arrest motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
gloss: A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;
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.’
gloss: To stay, remain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
gloss: To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
The suspect merchant ship has been arrested by customs officers.
I arrest thee of high treason.
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.
gloss: To catch the attention of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
gloss: To undergo cardiac arrest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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: halt
discontinue
seize
dazzle
engage
entice
Related words: arrestation
Derived words: aperest
arrestin
arrest warrant
cardiac arrest
cardiopulmonary arrest
citizen's arrest
de-arrest
false arrest
growth arrest line
house arrest
nonarrest
postarrest
prearrest
pretextual arrest
resisting arrest
self-arrest
under arrest
warrant of arrest
dearrest
unarrest
arrestability
arrestable
arrestee
arrester
arrestor
arresting
arrestive
arrestment
arrest-me-red
rearrest
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