arrest

Meanings

Noun

• A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• A device to physically arrest motion.
• The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

Verb

• To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
• To stay, remain.
• To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
• To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• To catch the attention of.
• To undergo cardiac arrest.

Origin

• From Middle English arest and aresten, from Old French areste and arester, from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- ("to") + restō, from re- + stō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ("to stand"), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter ("to stop").