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arrest

noun
/əˈɹɛst/

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”).

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻
  2. derived from ad-
  3. derived from *arrestō✻
  4. derived from areste
  5. inherited from arest

Definitions

  1. A check

    A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.

    • cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest

  3. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

    • State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

    2. A device to physically arrest motion.

    3. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

    4. 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.

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

    6. 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;
      • Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’

    7. To stay, remain.

      • A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.

    8. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

      • To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

    9. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law

      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.
      • I arrest thee of high treason.

    10. 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.

    11. 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.

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Derived

aperest, arrestin, arrest warrant, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest, citizen's arrest, de-arrest, false arrest, growth arrest line, house arrest, nonarrest, postarrest, prearrest, pretextual arrest, resisting arrest, self-arrest, under arrest, warrant of arrest, dearrest, unarrest, arrestability, arrestable, arrestee, arrester, arrestor, arresting, arrestive, arrestment, arrest-me-red, rearrest

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arrest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01arrest02arresting03gripping04catches05catch06seizing07grabbing08grab

A definitional loop anchored at arrest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at arrest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA