Definizione monolingua

arrest

arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). [14th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]
3. (transitive) To stop (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 707:

     To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

4. (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
5. (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
   • 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

arrest (plural arrests)

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. (law) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest
5. A device to physically arrest motion

Definizione dizionario arrest

	arresto
	Limitazione della libertà personale in seguito o in attesa di un provvedimento giudiziario messa in atto dalle forze dell'ordine.

arrestare

catturare

detenzione

fermare

fermata

fermo

impedire

imprigionare

interrompere

Altri significati:

an act or instance of an arrest

(obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). [14th-19th c.]

condition of being stopped

(obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]

confinement, as after an arrest

To seize and keep prisoner.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something

(transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest

(transitive) To stop (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]

to take into legal custody

(law) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

to stop (a process etc.)

A device to physically arrest motion

to seize attention of

device to physically arrest motion

(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]

act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc