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v. To stop; check: a brake that automatically arrests motion; arrested the growth of the tumor.

v. To seize and hold under the authority of law.

v. To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.

verb-intransitive. To undergo cardiac arrest: The patient arrested en route to the hospital.

n. The act of detaining in legal custody: the arrest of a criminal suspect.

n. The state of being so detained: a criminal under arrest.

n. A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part.

n. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped.

n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.

n. The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

n. A device to physically arrest motion.

n. The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

v. To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of

v. To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law.

v. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch.

v. To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.

verb-intransitive. To tarry; to rest.

n. The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint.

n. The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.

n. Any seizure by power, physical or moral.

n. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

To stop forcibly; check or hinder the motion or action of: as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the course of justice.

To take, seize, or apprehend by virtue of a legal warrant or official authority; take into custody: as, to arrest one for a crime or misdemeanor.

To seize and fix; engage; secure; catch; take: as, to arrest the eyes or the attention.

To rest or fix.

In Scots and admiralty law, to seize (property) for debt or the satisfaction of a claim; attach or levy upon.

n. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; suspension of movement or action: as, an arrest of the vital functions; “the stop and arrest of the air,” Bacon.

n. Self-restraint; self-command.

n. Any seizure or taking by force, physical or moral; hindrance; interruption; stoppage; restraint.

n. In machinery, any contrivance which stops or retards motion.

n. In law, the taking of a person into custody of the law, usually by virtue of a warrant from authority.

n. In admiralty law, the taking of a ship into custody by virtue of a warrant from a court.—

n. In Scots law, attachment; seizure of property, funds, etc., by legal process, as for debt or the satisfaction of a claim.

n. A mangy tumor on the back part of the hind leg of a horse. Also called rat-tail.

v. take into custody

v. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

v. cause to stop

v. attract and fix

n. the state of inactivity following an interruption

n. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

"That description was changed in a subsequent legal filing, with a lawyer for KIT saying the use of the word "arrest" was due to an "administrative error.""

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imprisonment    punishment    trial    capture    prosecution    execution    murder    seizure    assault    conviction