Word Finder - arrest

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

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The condition of being stopped, standstill.

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The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

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A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

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A device to physically arrest motion.

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

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Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

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A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

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To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

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To stay, remain.

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To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

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To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

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The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

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To catch the attention of.

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To undergo cardiac arrest.

They could arrest and imprison.

Why don't you arrest both of us?

Then came the arrest, and with it the fear of being questioned by the police.

Why did you come here—to arrest me too?

His arrest had caused great indignation.

Since his arrest the courage of Camille had miserably failed.

Most cases were earlier tips as lately, the authorities were far more cautious with our information; often even denying a tip was involved when an arrest occurred.

Two weeks before the arrest, she dissolved the remainder of their relationship.

He was out on parole from an arrest in Missouri.

On the 31st the warrant of arrest was signed and executed, and on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of April the trial took place before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

We knew some of our tips never came to fruition simply because authorities lacked the probable cause to arrest the perpetrator.

The best I can figure, he never left California before his arrest so that's where I'm concentration.

Unless they arrest me, I'm still in Bird Song, and that's where all the action is right at the moment.

On the 13th of October 1307 came the arrest of all the Knights Templar in France, the breaking of a storm conjured up by royal jealousy and greed.

The growth of the Old Testament into its present form, and its preservation despite hostile forces, are the two remarkable phenomena which most arrest the attention of the historian; it is for the theologian to interpret their bearing upon the history of religious thought.

In fact, after the flight of the king and the subsequent suppression of the riots, a warrant was issued for his arrest; and he had barely time to escape to Weimar, where Liszt was at that moment engaged in preparing Tannhauser for performance, before the storm burst upon him with alarming violence.

Meanwhile the government decided on his arrest, and no sooner was this made public than the populace rushed to the attack of the convent.

Natural arrest of haemorrhage arises from (I) the coagulation of the blood itself, (2) the diminution of the heart's action as in fainting, (3) changes taking place in the cut vessel causing its retraction and contraction.

In small blood-vessels pressure will be sufficient to arrest haemorrhage permanently.

He took the road for Spain, but turned back in fear of arrest.

The government was strong enough to put him under arrest at Lerida.

Your misfortunes are cruel, but His Majesty the Emperor and King desires to arrest their course.

After the affair of the Champ de Mars (July 17th, 1791) a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he went into hiding.

Reckless talk in public places led to the arrest of the conspirators.

Towards the middle of November Colonel Gore was commanded to effect the arrest of Papineau and his principal adherents on a charge of high treason.

When, after being virtually under arrest, he rejoined his army, it was concentrated about Savannah on the Tennessee, preparing for a campaign towards Corinth, Miss.

His action is liable to be arrested at any time at the will of either party unless otherwise agreed, in which case to arrest it prematurely would be a breach of good faith.

In 1763 the great constitutional questions arising out of the arrest of Wilkes began to be sharply canvassed.

As member of the insurrectionary Commune of the 10th of August 1792, he was delegated to visit the prisons, with full power to arrest suspects.

In the law of England sentence of excommunication, upon being properly certified by the bishop, was followed by the writ de excommunicato capiendo for the arrest of the offender.

Richie, who is awaiting trial from the December 2006 arrest for driving the wrong way on a California freeway while under the influence of alcohol, simply tried to brush the ticket off her car with the wipers.

A complaint was filed by O'Brien against Swanson, which led to the arrest.

Then Chalier became the orator and leader of the Jacobins of Lyons, and induced the other revolutionary clubs and the commune of his city to arrest a great number of Royalists in the night of the 5th and 6th of February 1793.

The soldiers refused to disband, and on the 3rd of June Cromwell, whom, it was believed, the parliament intended to arrest, joined the army."

He built a great temple, a hippodrome and a street of columns surrounding the city, the remains of which still arrest the attention.

The plot was, however, discovered; and Bedmar, protected by his position from arrest, left Venice and went to Flanders as president of the council.

His party fell before the Mountain; sentence of arrest was passed against the leading members of it on the 2nd of June 1793.

In its original form, the doctrine of " arrest of development," as advocated by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Serres, was no doubt an over-statement of the case.

Warned, however, that his arrest was imminent, and possibly persuaded by Rory O'Donnell (created earl of Tyrconnel in 1603), whose relations with Spain had endangered his own safety, Tyrone resolved to fly from the country.

In that month, however, such a request was dangerous; there was excitement in the city over the presentation of the petition, and the private attacks to which Desmoulins had often been subject were now followed by a warrant for the arrest of himself and Danton.

Not the Western Crusades but an Eastern rival, Timur (Tamerlane), king of Transoxiana and conqueror of southern Russia and India, was destined to arrest the progress of Bayezid; and from the battle of Angora (1402) till the days of Murad II.

But in other respects the new constitution tended to arrest development.

Immediately before arrest the heart may beat much faster than normally, though with extreme irregularity, and in the lower animals the auricles may be observed occasionally to miss a beat, as in poisoning by veratrine and colchicum.

This change showing the points of insertion can brought about by arrest of the leaves and their spiral development, by increased development of individual parts or by a torsion of the axis.

On the refusal of his resignation, he entered into a struggle with the majority in the congress, and ultimately resorted to an adjournment and the unconstitutional arrest of 68 of the senators and representatives.

Attempts have been made, by adding certain coagulants to the water to be filtered, to increase the power of sand and other granular materials to arrest bacteria when passing through them at much higher velocities than are possible for successful filtration by means of the surface film upon sand.

He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...

If only I were to hand the letter direct to him and tell him all... could they really arrest me for my civilian clothes?

With painful dejection he awaited the end of this action, in which he regarded himself as a participant and which he was unable to arrest.

Her jail sentence was to be served under house arrest for the original 45 day sentence she received.