arrests

noun

(law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

A device to physically arrest motion.

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

verb

(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

(transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

(transitive) To catch the attention of.

(intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.

(obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).

(obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.

Roots

storest- · Latin · stand

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