arrest
A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
Other meanings
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.”
Related words
- aperest
- arrestin
- nonarrest
- postarrest
- prearrest
- unarrest
- citizen's arrest
- false arrest
- growth arrest line
- de-arrest
- resisting arrest
- self-arrest
Word history
From Latin "ad-" (to).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “arrest” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.