resisting arrest

1. 1.

   physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest

   Broaderassaultbattery

   law

Questions about resisting arrest

What does resisting arrest mean?

resisting arrest means "physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest".

Is resisting arrest a common word?

resisting arrest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.