arrests

Meaning of arrests

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

Information about arrests

  • The singular form of arrests is: arrest.
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Hyphenation of arrests

ar-rests

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • arrests is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

arrests synonyms

Meaning :

attract, dazzle, engage, entice, apprehend, seize, cease, discontinue, freeze, halt

Anagrams of arrests

rasters, starers

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