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adj. Having been stopped or prevented from developing

v. Simple past tense and past participle of arrest.

Retaining through life an infantile or a juvenile state of development with respect to any organ. Modifications of structure from arrested development, so great or so serious as to deserve to be called monstrosities, are of common occurrence.

"His deputy chief of police, Gerold Dompig, used the broader term, detained, but as I say, his boss using the term arrested at this stage."

arrested    arresting    arrests   

seize    clutch    prehend    stop    draw    pull in    draw in    pull    attract    gaining control   

stop    restrain    stoppage    restraint    imprisonment    breach of arrest    arrest of judgment    nerve of arrest   

cardiac arrest    arrest warrant    house arrest    arrestment    arrester    arrestor    arresting   

detain    stop    check    seize    hinder    delay    obstruct    apprehend    hold    catch   

Best    Blessed    Brest    Celeste    Este    Midwest    Pest    Test    West    abreast   

imprisonment    punishment    trial    capture    prosecution    execution    murder    seizure    assault    conviction