Usually means: Apprehension by legal authority, detainment.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. arrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arrest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arrest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arrest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arrest: Wordnik
  7. arrest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arrest: Wiktionary
  9. arrest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arrest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arrest: Dictionary.com
  13. arrest (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. arrest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Arrest (disambiguation), Arrest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Arrest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. arrest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. arrest: Rhymezone
  19. arrest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. arrest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. arrest: Free Dictionary
  22. arrest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. arrest: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. arrest: Wordnik
  25. arrest: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrest: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. arrest: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. arrest: Legal dictionary
  9. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arrest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. arrest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ARREST: Acronym Finder
  2. arrest: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arrest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. arrest: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
noun:  The condition of being stopped, standstill.
noun:  (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
noun:  A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
noun:  A device to physically arrest motion.
noun:  (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
noun:  (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
noun:  (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
verb:  (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
verb:  (transitive) To catch the attention of.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.

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