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

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• 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.
• 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 .
• 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
• 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.