Arrest

Definitions

1. A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
   countable, uncountable
2. arrest, confinement, detention
3. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
   countable, uncountable
4. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
   countable, uncountable
5. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
   countable, uncountable
6. A device to physically arrest motion.
   countable, uncountable
7. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
   countable, uncountable
8. Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
9. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest”

“State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.”

“The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.”

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