English Explanatory Dictionary

arrest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  5. A device to physically arrest motion.
  6. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  7. Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  8. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
verb
  1. To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
  2. To stay, remain.
  3. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
  4. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
  5. To catch the attention of.
  6. To undergo cardiac arrest.

Pronunciation

/əˈɹɛst/ [əˈɹʷɛst] En-us-arrest.ogg

Word forms

arrest arrests arresting arrested

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”).

Synonyms

halt discontinue seize dazzle engage entice freeze cease apprehend attract

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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