What is the meaning of ARREST. Phrases containing ARREST
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warrant to arrest or search
to be arrested
Arrest is American slang for to accuse someone of dressing out of style.
police raid or arrest
to be arrested
to be arrested
Heard used by white southern Georgia farmers to describe blacks. The origin is that blacks are always being arrested and being hand"cuffed" by the police.
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An arrest, capture
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Policeman A collar or an arrest. Someone being arrested will “have their elbows checked.â€
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v 1. a. To smash or break, especially forcefully. b. To render inoperable or unusable. 2. To reduce in rank. 3. a. To place under arrest. b. To make a police raid on. v.intr. 1. a. To undergo breakage; become broken. b. To burst; break. 2. To become bankrupt or short of money. 3. To lose at blackjack by exceeding a score of 21. n. 1. A failure; a flop. 2. A state of bankruptcy. 3. A time or period of widespread financial depression. 4. A punch; a blow. 5. A spree. a fraternity beer bust 6. a. An arrest. b. A raid. Idioms:bust (one's) butt/ass To make a strenuous effort; work very hard. bust (one's) nut 1. To eject semen in orgasm. 2. To orgasm.
Gate arrest is British slang for arresting a prisoner as he leaves prison for another offence.
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n.
An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
a.
Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.
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A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
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Tending to arrest.
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Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
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One who arrests.
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The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.
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The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
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A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
v. t.
To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
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The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.
v. t.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
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That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
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Arrest.
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The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
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Not taken or arrested.
v. t.
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
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