| arrest | |
| 1. n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. | |
| 2. n. The condition of being stopped, standstill. | |
| 3. n. (legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. | |
| 4. n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. | |
| 5. n. A device to physically arrest motion. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise. | |
| 8. n. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse. | |
| 9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). | |
| 10. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. | |
| 11. v. To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). | |
| 12. v. To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. | |
| The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry. | |
| 13. v. To catch the attention of. | |
