Definition of arrest

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Arrest (v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses..

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Raid :: Raid (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury..
Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..
Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..
Lockup :: Lockup (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. i.) To tarry; to rest.
Caption :: Caption (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
Unattached :: Unattached (a.) Not taken or arrested.
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (a.) Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.
Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off..
Abortion :: Abortion (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed..
Thirst :: Thirst (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation..
Stopped :: Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime..
Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..
Hysterogenic :: Hysterogenic (a.) Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria..
Dashy :: Dashy (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
Watchhouse :: Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
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