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arrest

See also: Arrest

English

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A suspect being arrested, as in most countries handcuffed with the arms on the back

Etymology

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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”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /əˈɹɛst/
  • Hyphenation: ar‧rest
  • Rhymes: -ɛst
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests)

  1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
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  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
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  3. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
    State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
  4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
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  5. A device to physically arrest motion.
  6. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
    • 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
      The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  8. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse[1]

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Translations

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Verb

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arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). [14th–19th c.]
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
      An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule,
      And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
    • 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 11:
      Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;
    • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 86:
      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.’
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th–16th c.]
    • 1538, John Leland, Itineraries:
      A white Starre […] whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
  3. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 707:
      To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
      Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  4. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
    The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
  5. (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
    • 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
      There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
  6. (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
    • 2004, Euan A. Ashley, Josef Niebauer, Cardiology Explained, page 66:
      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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Translations

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to stay, remain — see stay,‎ remain
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  1. ^ 1817, James White, A Compendious Dictionary of the Veterinary Art.

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Catalan

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Noun

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arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos)

  1. arrest

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Danish

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Etymology

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Via German Arrest from Middle French arrest (“arrest”) (French arrêt), derived from the verb arrester (“to hold back, arrest”) (arrêter), borrowed to Danish arrestere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [aˈʁasd̥], [aˈʁɑsd̥]

Noun

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arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester)

  1. arrest (the process of holding back a suspect)
  2. confinement, detention (a short-time prison)

Declension

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Declension of arrest
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative arrest arresten arrester arresterne
genitive arrests arrestens arresters arresternes

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest.

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arrest n (plural arresten, diminutive arrestje n)

  1. (law) sentence passed by a higher court
  2. (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling
  3. (law, historical) detention, confinement, especially after being arrested

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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: ares
  • Negerhollands: arrest

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian arresto.

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Noun

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arrest m (plural arresti)

  1. arrest, detention
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old French arester.

Noun

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arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrester, definite plural arrestene)

  1. arrest, custody, detention

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old French arester.

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arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrestar, definite plural arrestane)

  1. arrest, custody, detention

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
 
Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Noun

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arrest c

  1. a location with holding cells or the like for temporarily detaining people (usually at a police station)
    Synonym: (slang) kurra
    sitta i arresten
    be in the holding cell area / (by implication) be in custody
  2. arrest, custody, detention
    husarrest
    house arrest

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Declension of arrest 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative arrest arresten arrester arresterna
Genitive arrests arrestens arresters arresternas
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