Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ARREST

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Definitions of ARREST

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
4. A device to physically arrest motion.
5. (legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
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
9. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). [14th]
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th]
11. (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
12. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
13. (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
14. (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.

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Examples of Using ARREST in a Sentence

• 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
• Section 3(6) once provided that a constable could arrest without warrant anyone he reasonably suspected to be committing affray, but that subsection was repealed by paragraph 26(2) of Schedule 7 to, and Schedule 17 to, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, which includes more general provisions for police to make arrests without warrant.
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure to assist someone who has suffered cardiac arrest.
• 1642 – English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 soldiers, attempts to arrest five members of Parliament for treason, only to discover the men had been tipped off and fled.
• Being naturally non-venomous, pythons must constrict their prey to induce cardiac arrest prior to consumption.
• This was accomplished primarily through the use of a network of civilian informants who contributed to the arrest of approximately 250,000 people in East Germany.
• January 4 – First English Civil War: Accompanied by soldiers, England's King Charles I arrives at a session of the Long Parliament and attempts to arrest his chief opponents, the five leading members of parliament—John Hampden, Arthur Haselrig, Denzil Holles, John Pym and William Strode—but they escape and are protected by the Lord Mayor of London.
• British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization.
• January 12 – The Basque witch trials are started in Spain as the court of the Inquisition at Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of Zugarramurdi, and orders the arrest of four women, including María de Jureteguía and María Chipía de Barrenetxea.
• April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica (Macedonia) breaks out into violence after the arrest of a popular charioteer.
• Constans II orders Olympius, exarch of the Exarchate of Ravenna, to arrest Pope Martin I on the ostensible grounds that the pope's election has not been submitted to the emperor for approval, but in fact because of the Lateran Council of 649's condemnation of Monothelitism and the Type of Constans.
• Justin II recalls his cousin Justin (pretender to the throne) to Constantinople; after accusations against him, he is placed under house arrest.
• March – the Irish Rebellion of 1798 begins when the Irish Militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen, a group unique amongst Irish republican and nationalist movements in that it unifies Catholics and Protestants (Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others) around republican ideals.
• The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
• Generally, ASIO operations requiring police powers of arrest and detention under warrant are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with state and territory police forces.
• The situation arose from the conflict between the papacy and the French crown, culminating in the death of Pope Boniface VIII after his arrest and maltreatment by Philip IV of France.
• In the early 1970s, Albury–Wodonga was selected as the primary focus of the Whitlam Federal Labor government's scheme to arrest the uncontrolled growth of Australia's large metropolitan areas (in particular Sydney and Melbourne) by encouraging decentralisation.
• February 20 – Öljaitü, the Ikhanate of the Mongol Empire's territory in the Middle East, carries out a purge of corrupt officials, with the arrest and execution of his vizier, Sa'd al-Din Savaji and one of Sa'd al-Din's closest aides, Taj al-Din Avaji,.
• February – At an Imperial Diet in Pavia (assembled by Conrad II), Aribert is accused of fomenting a revolt against the Holy Roman Empire, Conrad orders his arrest.
• March 12 – Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods.

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