arrest

CEFRB1

/əˈɹɛst/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To take someone to a police station because they may have committed a crime.

  2. 02

    verb

    To stop or slow a process or movement.

Examples

  • We used emergency measures to revive the cardiac arrest patient.

  • State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. The condition of being stopped, standstill.

  2. The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

noun

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

  • He resisted arrest violently.

  • You are under arrest.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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”).