What part of speech is arrest?

Arrest can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. arrest is a verb, present, 1st person singular of arrest (infinitive).
  • 2. arrest is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. arrest is a noun, singular of arrests.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does arrest mean?

Definitions

Verb

arrest - To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
arrest - To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
arrest - To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
arrest - To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
arrest - To tarry; to rest.
arrest - The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
arrest - The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
arrest - Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
arrest - A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

Noun

arrest - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
arrest - the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

Examples of arrest

#   Sentence  
1. noun The negotiations were in arrest.
2. noun Another bad step was the recent arrest of Sheikh Hassan Al-Lihabi, of the Lihaib tribe which is scattered between the governorates of Al-Anbar, Mosul and Salah Al-Din.
3. noun Sheriff's deputies in Louisiana made a third arrest Wednesday in the ongoing investigation of a case involving allegations of sexual abuse of children and animals at a Ponchatoula, La., church.
4. noun At the time of his arrest, the suspect was allegedly involved in constructing a "submarine" in a shipyard on the island of Sirae near Phuket on the Andaman Sea coast.
5. noun The punishment for suicide murder should be death or arrest before the murder, not during and not after.
6. noun An early September 2003 Newsweek article included a rumor by a Taliban source that at a meeting in April 2003 Bin Laden was planning an "unbelievable" biological attack, the plans for which had suffered a setback upon the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ("KSM").
7. noun The computer disk was confiscated from him during his arrest by the CIA in Azerbaijan and handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
8. noun Newsweek reported that a "second wave" involving biological attacks had been thwarted upon the arrest of Al Qaeda members who had been intended to provide logistical support.
9. noun Yet all you read about at the time was the arrest of the son Ahmed Abdul Qadoos, who receives a stipend from the UN for being officially low-IQ due to lead poisoning.
10. noun The CIA did not even allow the FBI access to KSM for 10 days after his arrest.
11. noun That arrest in turn led to the dramatic capture of Khalid Mohammed, Al Qaeda's #3.
12. noun You are under arrest.
13. noun He resisted arrest violently.
14. noun We used emergency measures to revive the cardiac arrest patient.
15. noun No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
16. verb International law does not know how to deal with a leader of murderers who is royally and comfortably hosted by a country, which pretends to condemn his acts or just claims to be too weak to arrest him.
17. verb They chased the man to arrest him.
18. verb They attacked soldiers who were sent to arrest them.
19. verb They knocked on the door and said they had come to arrest him.
20. verb Tom was afraid that the police might want to arrest him.
21. verb You can't arrest me for being a clown.
22. verb Judas could no otherways betray him than by giving information where he was, and pointing him out to the officers that went to arrest him.
23. verb Why did they arrest him?
24. verb We are not here to arrest you.
25. verb Where did you arrest them?
26. verb Did you arrest Tom?
27. verb Are you here to arrest me?
28. verb I'm not here to arrest you.
29. verb We're not here to arrest you.
30. verb The police are not here to arrest you.
Sentence  
noun
The negotiations were in arrest.
Another bad step was the recent arrest of Sheikh Hassan Al-Lihabi, of the Lihaib tribe which is scattered between the governorates of Al-Anbar, Mosul and Salah Al-Din.
Sheriff's deputies in Louisiana made a third arrest Wednesday in the ongoing investigation of a case involving allegations of sexual abuse of children and animals at a Ponchatoula, La., church.
At the time of his arrest, the suspect was allegedly involved in constructing a "submarine" in a shipyard on the island of Sirae near Phuket on the Andaman Sea coast.
The punishment for suicide murder should be death or arrest before the murder, not during and not after.
An early September 2003 Newsweek article included a rumor by a Taliban source that at a meeting in April 2003 Bin Laden was planning an "unbelievable" biological attack, the plans for which had suffered a setback upon the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ("KSM").
The computer disk was confiscated from him during his arrest by the CIA in Azerbaijan and handed over to the Egyptian authorities.
Newsweek reported that a "second wave" involving biological attacks had been thwarted upon the arrest of Al Qaeda members who had been intended to provide logistical support.
Yet all you read about at the time was the arrest of the son Ahmed Abdul Qadoos, who receives a stipend from the UN for being officially low-IQ due to lead poisoning.
The CIA did not even allow the FBI access to KSM for 10 days after his arrest.
That arrest in turn led to the dramatic capture of Khalid Mohammed, Al Qaeda's #3.
You are under arrest.
He resisted arrest violently.
We used emergency measures to revive the cardiac arrest patient.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
verb
International law does not know how to deal with a leader of murderers who is royally and comfortably hosted by a country, which pretends to condemn his acts or just claims to be too weak to arrest him.
They chased the man to arrest him.
They attacked soldiers who were sent to arrest them.
They knocked on the door and said they had come to arrest him.
Tom was afraid that the police might want to arrest him.
You can't arrest me for being a clown.
Judas could no otherways betray him than by giving information where he was, and pointing him out to the officers that went to arrest him.
Why did they arrest him?
We are not here to arrest you.
Where did you arrest them?
Did you arrest Tom?
Are you here to arrest me?
I'm not here to arrest you.
We're not here to arrest you.
The police are not here to arrest you.

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