arrest /ə-restˈ/

1. To bring to a standstill, check
2. To seize
3. To catch, fix (eg the attention)
4. To apprehend and take into custody (a person) by legal authority
5. To seize by warrant
6. To take as security (Shakespeare)

To suffer a cardiac arrest

1. The act of arresting
2. Seizure by warrant
3. Stoppage, failure (eg of an organ or mechanism)

arrestˈable adjective

1. (of an offence) such that the offender may be arrested without warrant
2. Liable to arrest

arrestation /ar-es-tāˈshən/ noun

1. The act of arresting
2. Arrest

arresteeˈ noun

1. A person prevented by arrestment from making payment or delivery to another until the arrester's claim upon that other is secured or satisfied (Scots law)
2. A person legally arrested (N American)

arrestˈer noun

1. A person who, or thing which, arrests
2. A lightning-arrester (qv under lightning)
3. (also arrestˈor) a person who makes an arrestment (Scots law)

arrestˈing adjective

Striking

arrestˈingly adverb

arrestˈive adjective

Tending to arrest

arrestˈment noun

1. A checking, stopping
2. Detention of a person arrested until liberated on bail, or by security (law)
3. A process which prohibits a debtor from handing over to his or her creditor money or property until a debt due by that creditor to a third party, the arrester, is paid or secured (Scots law)

arrester gear noun

Shock-absorbing transverse cables on an aircraft-carrier's deck for the arrester hook of an alighting aircraft to catch on

arrester hook noun

A hook put out from an aircraft alighting on an aircraft-carrier, to catch on the arrester gear

arrest of judgement noun (law)

A delay between conviction and sentence because of possible error

cardiac arrest

1. A heart attack
2. Heart failure

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