Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being stopped, standstill.

    cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest

    задержа́ниеzaderžánije, остано́вostanóv

  3. (countable, uncountable)The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

    State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.

    Verhaftung, Festnahme

    аре́стarést, задержа́ниеzaderžánije

    аре́штaréšt, затри́манняzatrýmannja

  4. (countable, uncountable)A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

    Arrest

    аре́стarést

    аре́штaréšt

  5. (countable, uncountable)A device to physically arrest motion.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse

  8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

More definitions
  • the state of inactivity following an interruption
  • the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

Examples

1849 sentences
  1. Are you here to arrest me?

    Ти тут, щоб мене заарештувати? — deniko

    ruТы здесь, чтобы арестовать меня? — Selena777

    deSind Sie hier, um mich zu verhaften? — dinkel_girl

  2. I want Tom arrested for murder.

    Я хочу, щоб Тома заарештували за вбивство. — deniko

    ruЯ хочу, чтобы Том был арестован за убийство. — Olya

    deIch will, dass Tom wegen Mordes verhaftet wird. — al_ex_an_der

  3. Tom and Mary have been arrested.

    Том та Мері були заарештовані. — deniko

    ruТом и Мэри были арестованы. — Balamax

  4. Tom was arrested at his home.

    Тома заарештували у себе вдома. — deniko

  5. Aren't you going to arrest me?

    Хіба ти мене не заарештуєш? — deniko

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
legal: process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc:
Русский
By meaning 2
condition of being stopped:
legal: process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
legal: process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc:
confinement, as after an arrest:

Origin

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and are

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).

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Forms

plural: arrests
Singulararrest
Pluralarrests

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • got arrested
  • has been arrested
  • was arrested for
  • the police arrested
  • to be arrested
  • police arrested
  • will be arrested
  • under arrest
  • police might arrest
  • arrested for doing
  • got arrested for
  • who got arrested

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
arrest — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto