arrest
VERB:
1. to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody:
The police arrested the burglar.
2. to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage:
The loud noise arrested our attention.
3. to check the course of; stop; slow down:
to arrest progress.
4. Medicine/Medical. to control or stop the active progress of (a disease):
The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
5. to deprive (a person) of liberty by taking him into custody, esp under lawful authority.
6. to seize (a ship) under lawful authority.
7. to slow or stop the development or progress of (a disease, growth, etc).
8. to catch and hold (one's attention, sight, etc).
9. seize, capture—specifically to take or keep in custody by authority of law:
Police arrested the suspect.
10. to bring to a stop:
Sickness arrested his activities.
11. check, slow:
Its growth was arrested.
12. to make inactive:
an arrested tumor.
13. to catch suddenly and engagingly:
arrest attention.
Examples:
The police arrested him on drug charges. // The police officer said, “I'm arresting you in the name of the law.”
in medicine:
1. to stop; check.
2. to undergo cardiac arrest.
Origin:
1275–1325; (v.) Middle English aresten < Anglo-French, Middle French arester, < Vulgar Latin *arrestāre to stop (see ar-, rest2); (noun) Middle English arest(e) < Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of v. British dictionary: C14: from Old French arester, from Vulgar Latin arrestāre (unattested), from Latin ad at, to + restāre to stand firm, stop. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of arrest: Verb: 14th century. Noun: 14th century. History and Etymology for arrest: Verb and Noun: Middle English aresten, from Anglo-French arester to stop, arrest, from Vulgar Latin *arrestare, from Latin ad- + restare to remain — more at rest. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 31 July 2020 {9:46 PM}
1. to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody:
The police arrested the burglar.
2. to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage:
The loud noise arrested our attention.
3. to check the course of; stop; slow down:
to arrest progress.
4. Medicine/Medical. to control or stop the active progress of (a disease):
The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
5. to deprive (a person) of liberty by taking him into custody, esp under lawful authority.
6. to seize (a ship) under lawful authority.
7. to slow or stop the development or progress of (a disease, growth, etc).
8. to catch and hold (one's attention, sight, etc).
9. seize, capture—specifically to take or keep in custody by authority of law:
Police arrested the suspect.
10. to bring to a stop:
Sickness arrested his activities.
11. check, slow:
Its growth was arrested.
12. to make inactive:
an arrested tumor.
13. to catch suddenly and engagingly:
arrest attention.
Examples:
The police arrested him on drug charges. // The police officer said, “I'm arresting you in the name of the law.”
in medicine:
1. to stop; check.
2. to undergo cardiac arrest.
Origin:
1275–1325; (v.) Middle English aresten < Anglo-French, Middle French arester, < Vulgar Latin *arrestāre to stop (see ar-, rest2); (noun) Middle English arest(e) < Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of v. British dictionary: C14: from Old French arester, from Vulgar Latin arrestāre (unattested), from Latin ad at, to + restāre to stand firm, stop. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of arrest: Verb: 14th century. Noun: 14th century. History and Etymology for arrest: Verb and Noun: Middle English aresten, from Anglo-French arester to stop, arrest, from Vulgar Latin *arrestare, from Latin ad- + restare to remain — more at rest. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Added: 31 July 2020 {9:46 PM}