Synonym: apprehend, capture, catch, check, pinch, seize, stop. Similar words: barrel, quarrel with, correspondent, irrespective of, forest, corresponding to, rest on, for the rest. Meaning: [ə'rest] 
n. 1. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) 2. the state of inactivity following an interruption. v. 1. take into custody 2. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 3. attract and fix 4. cause to stop.
n. 1. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) 2. the state of inactivity following an interruption. v. 1. take into custody 2. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 3. attract and fix 4. cause to stop. 
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91. Walters was not properly informed of the reasons for her arrest.
92. The former dictator is under house arrest in his country mansion.
93. He has now been formally given the grounds for his arrest.
94. She was stopped outside the shop and placed/put under arrest.
95. Steps need to be taken quickly to arrest the deterioration in the countries'relationship.
96. The security forces have extensive powers of search and arrest.
97. The senior members of the group appeared to be immune from arrest.
98. No arrest has been made(sentencedict.com), but a man is helping the police with their enquiries.
99. The sufferer may have to make major changes in his or her life to arrest the disease.
100. Those documents provided the missing link, and the police were able to make an arrest soon after they discovered them.
101. Brown made a citizen's arrest when a youth attempted to rob an elderly woman.
102. Fifty police officers to arrest two unarmed men is surely a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
103. The man was shot outside his house as he tried to resist arrest.
104. Judge La Riva had issued an arrest warrant/a warrant for his arrest.
105. The carnival got off to a virtually trouble-free start with the police reporting only one arrest.
106. She was put under house arrest two years ago but remained a powerful symbol in last year'selection.
107. He spent the night in a police cell after his arrest.
108. In France he could write freely, without fear of arrest.
109. You are under arrest.
110. The man the police want to talk to is slippery as an eel, and has so far escaped arrest.
111. Her arrest produced an immediate/a sudden reaction from the press.
112. His lawyer put him in the picture about what had happened since his arrest.
113. There is a reward for information leading to an arrest.
114. The police couldn't arrest him because he'd fled across the state line.
115. A reward has been offered for information that leads to the arrest of the murderer.
116. He tried to run away from the police and was charged with resisting arrest.
117. Murder squad detectives approached the man and placed him under arrest.
118. We can't sit silently by and let them arrest him!
119. The TV cameras were in at the death and filmed the arrest.
120. Police were told to arrest voters found with suspiciously large sums of money in their pockets.
More similar words: barrel, quarrel with, correspondent, irrespective of, forest, corresponding to, rest on, for the rest, restore, restrict, interest, restriction, prestidigitation, current, currency, correctly, currently, correlation, carry, array, narrow, harrow, carrot, carry out, carrier, arrange, carry on, carry off, barrier, arrival.