Word Finder - arrested

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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.

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Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.

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Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime.

He was arrested and jailed.

He lived with his mother here in Santa Barbara until he was arrested and sent away.

It is no longer legal for people to be secretly arrested, not charged, and left to rot in jail.

Then a patrol arrived and all the men--all those who were not looting, that is--were arrested, and I among them.

Speeding on our highways— Mr. Dean knows about that first-hand—my competent deputy arrested him for doing just that a few days ago.

He moved closer, and she found herself arrested by handsome features and eyes that turned every color in the world.

She didn't even notice the stranger; her gaze was arrested by Gabriel.

I read in the paper today they recovered another child and arrested the stupid abductor.

The Police didn't buy it and both were arrested, thereby renewing Howie's credibility.

He retired to Montargis, where he was arrested, and was guillotined in Paris on the 17th of November 1793.

The revolution of 1848 arrested for a while her novelistic activities.

He was arrested and would have died on the scaffold if sympathisers had not rescued him.

In Russia, Joseph Stalin had thousands of writers, intellectuals, and scientists arrested and put into concentration camps.

All his loquacity was suddenly arrested and replaced by a naive and silent feeling of admiration.

She stilled, arrested by the flavor and texture.

After that nasty sheriff created all that fuss and arrested your stepfather, my attorney was sure the judge would call a mistrial and we'd have to start over again.

The conspiracy was discovered; Biron and Auvergne were arrested and Biron was executed.

At this point Gassendi arrested Descartes and addressed his objections to him as pure intelligence, - O mens!

In April 1892 Alem and his chief colleagues were arrested and sent into exile.

In the 4th century its political development was arrested by constant struggles between oligarchs and democrats, who in turn brought the city under the control of Sparta (4 12 -395, 39 1 -37 8), of Athens (395-39 1, 37 8 -357), and of 'the Carian dynasty of Maussollus (357-340).

The introvert is not a simple one with complete range both in eversion and introversion, but is arrested in introversion by the fibrous bands at c, and similarly in eversion by the fibrous bands at b.

None of them arrested, some actually accelerated, the natural agencies of damp and disintegration, decay and mildew.

His prodigious literary activity led to his falling under the suspicions of the Austrian police, and he was mixed up in a political trial and arrested in 1833.

Just before the revolution of 1848, being warned that he would be arrested, he fled to Turin, but after the "Five Days" he returned to Milan and edited a paper called La Guardia Nazionale.

Cangrande died in 1319, being succeeded by his nephew Martino, and Marsiglio soon began to meditate treachery; he negotiated with the Venetians in 1336, and in the following year he secretly introduced Venetian troops into Padua, arrested Alberto della Scala, Martino's brother, then in charge of the town, and thus regained the lordship. He died in 1338, and was succeeded by his relative Ubertino, a typical medieval tyrant, who earned an unenviable notoriety for his murders and acts of treachery, but was also a patron of the arts; he built the Palazzo dei Principi, the castle of Este, constructed a number of roads and canals, and protected commerce.

The patent was being made ready, when all was arrested by the sudden death of the son who was to Burke more than life.

A little later she is called "a regular termagant" and in 1607 "not very beautiful."' In December k 1609 she planned an escape with Sir George Douglas to Scotland, apparently with a view of arranging a marriage with Stephen Bogdan, pretender to Moldavia, and on the scheme being discovered she was arrested.

The shoot is placed in the upper mouthpiece, and the stop or door, which retains the coal in the chamber, is released; the coal is then discharged into the retort, and rushing down the incline, is arrested by the barrier, and banks up, forming a continuous backing to the coal following.

He was later arrested on another rape, charged with that crime, and sent away.

Jackson had stopped by for Bumpus who reluctantly jumped into the back seat like an arrested felon.

One arrested his nasal problem on the sleeve of his hoodie.

In 1604 d'Entragues and he were arrested and condemned to death; at the same time the marchioness was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in a convent.

Recrossing the Italian frontier, he was arrested at Figline and taken back to Caprera, where he eked out his slender resources by writing several romances.

Zaminddrs, or government renters, were arrested on mesne process; the sanctity of the zendna, or women's chamber, as dear to Hindus as to Mahommedans, was violated by the sheriff's officer; the deepest feelings of the people and the entire fabric of revenue administration were alike disregarded.

But violence succeeded violence, and early on the morning of the 1st of June she was arrested and thrown into the prison of the Abbaye.

Released for an hour from the Abbaye, she was again arrested and thrown among the horrors of Sainte-Pelagie.

After the rising in Cheshire Cooper was arrested in Dorsetshire on a charge of corresponding with its leader Booth, but on the matter being investigated by the council he was unanimously acquitted.

On the 29th and 30th of May 1793 the sections rose; the Jacobins were dispossessed of the municipality and Chalier arrested.

His passage through Cilicia was marked by a violent fever that arrested him for a while in Tarsus, and meantime a great Persian army was waiting for him in northern Syria under the command of Darius himself.

About 1639 he entered upon the career of an itinerant preacher, and for preaching in various parts of Wales he was twice arrested in 1640; however, he was not punished and during the Civil War he preached in and around London.

At the Restoration in 1660 he was arrested for preaching, and after a short period of freedom he was again seized, and he remained in prison for seven years.

He arrested the persons who refused to pay taxes, and sent Cony's lawyers to the Tower.

No corpse can be attached, taken in execution, arrested or detained for debt.

The synchronous revolutions of the transmitting cylinders are effected by making one cylinder revolve slightly faster than the other; after each revolution the cylinder which is accelerated is arrested for a moment by means of a special relay until the difference of speed is accurately compensated for.

Thereupon the French general, Miollis, who still occupied Rome, caused the pope to be arrested and carried him away northwards into Tuscany, thence to Savona; finally he was taken, at Napoleons orders, to Fontainebleau.

The mission of Gaetano Castiglia and Marquis Giorgio Pallavicini to Turin, where they had interviewed Charles Albert, although without any definite resultfor Confalonieri had warned the prince that Lombardy was not ready to risewas accidentally discovered, and Confalonieri was himself arrested.

A rising was organized for February 1831; but Francis got wind of it, and, repenting of his dangerous dallying with revolution, arrested Menotti and fled to Austrian territory with his prisoner.

However the authorities had been informed of the plot, probably by one of the conspirators named George Edwards; officers appeared upon the scene and arrested some of the conspirators; and although Thistlewood escaped in the confusion he was seized on the following day.

Brissot attempted to escape in disguise, but was arrested at Moulins.

If the bud, however, is destined to give rise not to a free medusa, but to a gonophore, the development is similar but becomes arrested at various points, according to the degree to which the gonophore is degenerate.