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Definition arrest

Etymology

From Old French arester (“to stay, stop”), from Vulgar Latin *arrestare, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restare (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stare (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”). Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).

Noun

arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests)

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
8. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

Verb

arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). [14th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]
3. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
4. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
5. (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]

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