arrested
/əˈɹɛstɪd/ adjetivo B1- Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.
- Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime.
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Some of your people have committed the strangest mistake—they have just arrested Edmond Dantès, mate of my vessel.”
He was, if I recollect, arrested in a tavern, in company with a great many others.” Then he added, “Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty.”
“What were you doing at the moment you were arrested?”
Morrel, all the forms were got over; in a word I was, as I told you, at my marriage feast; and I should have been married in an hour, and tomorrow I intended to start for Paris, had I not been arrested on this charge which you as well as I now see to be unjust.”
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