arrest
/əˈɹɛst/ noun B1- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill. · cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
- The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. · State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
Plural arrests
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“Edmond Dantès,” replied the magistrate, “I arrest you in the name of the law!”
During this conversation, Dantès, after having exchanged a cheerful shake of the hand with all his sympathizing friends, had surrendered himself to the officer sent to arrest him, merely saying, “Make yourselves quite easy, my good fellows, there is some little mistake to clear up, that’s all, depend upon it; and very likely I may not have to go so far as the prison to effect that.”
Meantime the subject of the arrest was being canvassed in every different form.
Mercédès, however, paid no heed to this explanation of her lover’s arrest.
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