arrest

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹɛst/
• Hyphenation: ar‧rest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

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]

Verb

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.

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I arrest thee of high treason.

   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

     The policeman who arrests the "Red" does not understand the theories the "Red" is preaching; if he did, his own position as bodyguard of the monied class might seem less pleasant to him.

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.

References

Anagrams

• Arters, arrêts, rarest, raster, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras

Noun

arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos)

1. arrest

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [aˈʁasd̥], [aˈʁɑsd̥]

Noun

arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester)

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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈrɛst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ar‧rest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

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

Anagrams

• raster, terras

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arresto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈrɛst/

• Audio (Gozo):

  (file)

Noun

arrest m (plural arresti)

1. arrest, detention

Etymology

From Old French arester.

Noun

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

1. arrest, custody, detention

References

• “arrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old French arester.

Noun

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

1. arrest, custody, detention

References

• “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Noun

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

References

• arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• arrest in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• arrest in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• arters, estrar, raster, tsarer