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▸ 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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cardiac,
respiratory,
circulatory,
arbitrary,
immediate,
sudden,
false,
lawful,
developmental,
complete,
illegal
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