arrest

English

/əˈɹɛst/

noun
Definitions
  • A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
  • The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  • (legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  • A device to physically arrest motion.
  • (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  • (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  • (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

Etymology

Derived from Old French arester (stay, stop) derived from Latin *arrestō, ad- (to, towards, at, near, toward, upon, prefix meaning to, up to, against) derived from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*steh₂-

Gloss

stand, stay, place, put, be standing, set, stand up

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Kanji

立

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