Arrest

What do we mean by arrest?

To stop; check. intransitive verb

To seize and hold under the authority of law. intransitive verb

To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage. intransitive verb

To undergo cardiac arrest. intransitive verb

The act of detaining in legal custody. noun

The state of being so detained. noun

A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part. noun

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped. noun

To stop forcibly; check or hinder the motion or action of: as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the course of justice.

To take, seize, or apprehend by virtue of a legal warrant or official authority; take into custody: as, to arrest one for a crime or misdemeanor.

To seize and fix; engage; secure; catch; take: as, to arrest the eyes or the attention.

To rest or fix.

In Scots and admiralty law, to seize (property) for debt or the satisfaction of a claim; attach or levy upon.

A mangy tumor on the back part of the hind leg of a horse. Also called rat-tail. noun

The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; suspension of movement or action: as, an arrest of the vital functions; “the stop and arrest of the air,” Bacon. noun

Self-restraint; self-command. noun

Any seizure or taking by force, physical or moral; hindrance; interruption; stoppage; restraint. noun

In machinery, any contrivance which stops or retards motion. noun

In law, the taking of a person into custody of the law, usually by virtue of a warrant from authority. noun

A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

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.

A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

Words that are spelled similarly to arrest:
arrest, armrest, arret, arrect, arest, arres, artest.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word arrest:
warrants, warrant, extradition, detention, deportation, bail, imprisonment, conviction, detained, suspect, treason, arrested, charges, custody, suspicion, jail, prosecution, suspected, torture, cardiac, execution, trial, fled, murder, crimes, fbi, imprisoned, hiding, police, violation, charged, guilty, convicted, escaped, allegedly, alleged, prison, accused, issued, criminal, conspiracy, sentence, authorities, possession, exile, coup, gang, enforcement, officers, illegal, assault, investigation, escape, leaders, crime, protest, agents, anyone.

Words that rhyme with arrest:
test, manifest, best, rest, request, suggest, quest, attest, crest, nest, lest, contest, vest, chest, west, behest, zest, abreast, protest, blessed, invest, divest, jest, digest, incest, breast, distressed, obsessed, pest, guest, fest, ingest, detest, impressed, bequest, celeste, depressed, wrest, molest, assessed, unrest, accessed, blest, gest, possessed, stressed, pressed, inquest, este, infest, addressed, oppressed, teste, acquiesced, suppressed, geste, dressed, congest, recessed, northwest, midwest, expressed, slugfest, brest, armrest, compressed, southwest, budapest, coalesced, repressed, dispossessed, headrest, finessed, yest, prest, transgressed, professed, goldcrest, retest, alkahest, digressed, bucharest, mest, drest, caressed, backrest, feste, blood test, confessed, unimpressed, dest, self-professed, at best, guessed, reinvest, messed, mae west, undressed, rearrest, reassessed.

Adjectives that are often used to describe arrest:
cardiac, respiratory, circulatory, arbitrary, immediate, sudden, false, lawful, developmental, complete, illegal, temporary, hypothermic, cardiorespiratory, sinus, unlawful, subsequent, close, wrongful, induced, possible, mitotic, actual, impending, deep, partial, spontaneous, virtual, imminent, cardiopulmonary, initial, mandatory, permanent, warrantless, formal, ischemic, provisional, instant, unexpected, post, premature, secondary, prior, prolonged, preventive, apparent, mediated, valid, wholesale, eventual, spermatogenic, crack, malicious, elective, epiphyseal, meiotic, transient, prehospital, pre, dependent, diastolic, maturational, prompt, asystolic, pro, fatal, criminal, anoxic, consequent, mass, momentary, custodial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective arrest:
rates, warrant, records, warrants, man, data, statistics, record, men, rate, reports, decision, figures, haemorrhage, disorders, patterns, bleeding, trends, orders, procedures, woman, detention, points, freedom, history, information, hemorrhage, trial, policies, prob, age, leaders, battery, case, everyone, persons, traitor, decisions, seizure, powers, proceedings, lines, order, exemption, everybody, decoction, officers, probabilities, fellow, imprisonment, anyone, report, officer, privilege, charges, parlement, conseil, ticket, chandelier, empress, search, mother, histories, inhibition, practices, reaction, fouquet, czarevitch, thee, the, tariff, continued, scoundrel, knaves, musketeers, iii, stop, sturtevant, gentleman, definition, schemes, wind, essex, techniques, experiments, policemen.

Consonant match to arrest:
oest, ayerst, he hissed.

Words that sound like arrest:
rest, arrest, wrest, reste, wrist, rust, rist, roast, roost, raced, rost, rast, reast, roust, riced, raste, roist, risd, breast, dressed, crest, pressed, rests, ret, ress, caressed, brest, rst, rhett, trest, prest, arrests, ernst, irst, retched, rester, resto, rette, erst, rett, chrest, wrst, resi, arrester, drest, tressed, ressa, resta, wrester, recit, threst, wret, uresti, arrestor, earst, arrestee, wrests, breste, ferrest, regt, rasd, cresst, west, zest, hest, yest, yoest, weste, crust, earnest, receipt, recite, ernest, frist, crist, grist, rawest, brust, arest, arist, arista, krist, prist, aristo, aurous, reest, brist, christe, chryst, cryst, racette, recy, hris, prust, krust, ariss, chorist, arrased, aurate, aurist.