Definition of arrest

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Arrest (v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention..

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Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral..
Arresting :: Arresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arres.
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..
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..
Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.
Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..
Lockup :: Lockup (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..
Abortion :: Abortion (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed..
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (n.) A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention..
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..
Pause :: Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts..
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..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. i.) To tarry; to rest.
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief..
Arrest :: 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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