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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ar•rest /əˈrɛst/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- Lawto seize (a person) by legal authority:The police arrested the burglar.
- to catch and hold;
attract: A loud noise arrested our attention. - to stop (something) or to cause (something) to slow down: The new drug seemed to arrest the progress of the disease.
n. [countable] - Lawthe taking of a person into legal custody (as by the police):made an arrest.
- an act of stopping or the state of being stopped:cardiac arrest.
Idioms- Law, Idioms under arrest, in custody of the police.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ar•rest (ə rest′),USA pronunciation v.t. - to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant;
take into custody:The police arrested the burglar. - to catch and hold;
attract and fix; engage:The loud noise arrested our attention. - to check the course of;
stop; slow down:to arrest progress. - [Med.]to control or stop the active progress of (a disease):The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
n. - the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
- any seizure or taking by force.
- an act of stopping or the state of being stopped:the arrest of tooth decay.
- [Mach.]any device for stopping machinery;
stop. - under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities:They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime.
- Anglo-French, Old French, noun, nominal derivative of verb, verbal
- Vulgar Latin *arrestāre to stop (see ar-, rest2); (noun, nominal) Middle English arest(e)
- Anglo-French, Middle French arester,
- (verb, verbal) Middle English aresten 1275–1325
ar•rest′a•ble, adj. ar•rest′ment, n. - 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged apprehend.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged secure, rivet, occupy.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged stay. See stop.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged detention, apprehension, imprisonment.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged stoppage, halt, stay, check.
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