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say it: ur-EST
arrest is a verb and noun meaning "take into custody". It is pronounced /ɚˈɛst/ — ur-EST. It carries 6 recorded senses.
“Arrest the downward trend”
“Check the growth of communism in South East Asia”
“Contain the rebel movement”
“Turn back the tide of communism”
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
“the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for arrest come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.