arrest
verb
- remove from freedom, incarcerate
- stop
noun
- deprivation of liberty
- the act of stopping
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛst/ / [əˈɹʷɛst]
noun
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”).
- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
“cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest”
- The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
“State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.”
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
“The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.”
- A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
verb
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”).
- To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
“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;”
- To stay, remain.
“A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.”
- To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
“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.”
- To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
“The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.”
“The suspect merchant ship has been arrested by customs officers.”
- To catch the attention of.
“There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.”
- To undergo cardiac arrest.
“Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.”