arrest. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

arrest

SYLLABICATION:	ar·rest
PRONUNCIATION:	-rst
VERB:	Inflected forms: ar·rest·ed, ar·rest·ing, ar·rests
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To stop; check: a brake that automatically arrests motion; arrested the growth of the tumor. 2. To seize and hold under the authority of law. 3. To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To undergo cardiac arrest: The patient arrested en route to the hospital.
NOUN:	1a. The act of detaining in legal custody: the arrest of a criminal suspect. b. The state of being so detained: a criminal under arrest. 2. A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part. 3. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English aresten, from Old French arester, from Vulgar Latin ^*arrestre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin restre, to stand still ( re-, re- + stre, to stand; see st- in Appendix I).
OTHER FORMS:	ar·resta·ble —ADJECTIVE ar·rester, ar·restor —NOUN ar·restment —NOUN


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