Word Meanings - ARREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime. Note: After his word Shakespeare uses of ("I arrest thee of high treason") or on; the modern usage is for. 3. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as,
Additional info about word: ARREST
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime. Note: After his word Shakespeare uses of ("I arrest thee of high treason") or on; the modern usage is for. 3. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention. Buckminster. 4. To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate. We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To obstruct; delay; detain; check; hinder; stop; apprehend; seize; lay hold of. (more info) 1. To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARREST)
- Apprehend
- Comprehend
- understand
- take
- expect
- seize
- conceive
- arrest
- fancy
- dread
- imagine
- presume
- anticipate
- fear
- conjecture
- Block
- Stop
- fill
- obstruct
- Catch
- Take
- grip
- clutch
- capture
- secure
- ensnare
- snatch
- hit
- comprehend
- overtake
- apprehend
- Detain
- Stay
- keep
- check
- withhold
- delay
- restrain
- embargo
- stop
- Intercept
- Arrest
- catch
- neutralize
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ARREST)
- Release
- dismiss
- liberate
- free
- discharge
- expedite
- Loose
- instigate
- accelerate
- license
- indulge
- allow
- abet
- Liberate
- release
- emancipate
- Computation
- calculation
- inference
- reckoning
- proof
- deduction
- Loosen
- betray
- surrender
- expose
- imperil
- endanger
- open
Related words: (words related to ARREST)
- CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - BLOCKISH
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n. - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - NEUTRALIZE
To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - BLOCKING
1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - INTERCEPTION
The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy. - DREADNOUGHT
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by - BLOCK TIN
See TIN - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - CHECKREIN
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. - COMPUTATION
1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; - SNATCH
1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - CAUTIONARY BLOCK
A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - SCATCH
A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - MISCOMPUTATION
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. - UNEXPECTATION
Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - UNCOMPREHEND
To fail to comprehend. Daniel. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.