arrest
Meaning of arrest
- 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.
- To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
- To stay, remain.
- To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
- To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
- To catch the attention of.
- To undergo cardiac arrest.
Information about arrest
- The plural form of arrest is: arrests.
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CatalanHyphenation of arrest
ar-rest
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- arrest is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
arrest synonyms
Meaning apprehension:
apprehension, catch, collar, pinch
Meaning check:
check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage, contain
Meaning collar:
collar, nail, apprehend, nab, cop
Meaning catch:
Meaning halt:
Meaning :
attract, dazzle, engage, entice, seize, cease, discontinue, freeze
Translation of arrest
- French: arrêter, appréhender, attraper, saisir, capturer, arrestation
- German: festnehmen, verhaften
- Spanish: capturar, detener, arrestar, apresar, aprehender, detención, arresto, parar, contener, frenar, cautivar
- Italian: arrestare, detenere, arresto, fermare, contenere, attirare, affascinare
- Portuguese: prender, prisão, detenção
Anagrams of arrest
astrer, rarest, raster, raters, Sartre, starer, tarres, terras, treasr
Words that rhyme with arrest
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