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/ərˈɛstɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Arrest v. t. (past & past part. arrested; pres. part. arresting)

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."

(Law) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime. Note: After this word Shakespeare uses of ("I arrest thee of high treason") or on; the modern usage is for.

To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.

To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate. (Obs.) "We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies."

Synonyms: To obstruct; delay; detain; check; hinder; stop; apprehend; seize; lay hold of.

Arrest v. i. To tarry; to rest. (Obs.)

adjective

Arresting adj. Striking; attracting attention; impressive. "This most solemn and arresting occurrence."

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Etymology of 'Arresting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arresting" Quotes from Famous Books

... are self-created, their minds are set on gathering the varied fruit of all the nations. Genealogically they may be as uninteresting as the snail in the cabbage-patch, spiritually they are provocative and arresting. Romain Rolland and George Brandes challenge and outrage the champions of nationalism by the very texture of their minds. Joseph Conrad, a Pole, stands side by side with Thomas Hardy in his mastership of contemporary ...

— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby

... for many years held credit with the common people for curing scurvy and its allied ailments; while its juices have been further esteemed as of especial use in arresting tubercular consumption of the lungs; and yet it has remained for recent analysis to show that the Watercress is chemically rich in "antiscorbutic salts," which tend to destroy the germs of tubercular disease, and which ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... tyrants that the region had known. Was not the country strewn with the ruins of the fortresses they had built? To his mind they were more dangerous enemies than the Germans, who never came near Martel. I bear no grudge against the old man. He believed that he was doing his duty in arresting me, and if I had made more allowance for his age and prejudices the unpleasantness might have been avoided. To him the old struggle with the English was almost as fresh as if it had taken place ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... or fire from heaven, it might have remained doubtful to the heathen by whose anger their destruction had been effected, that of the Canaanitish gods, or of the God of Israel. But now that God went forth with his people, dividing the Jordan before them, overthrowing the walls of Jericho, arresting the sun and the moon in their course, and raining down upon their enemies great hailstones from heaven, it was manifest to all that the God of Israel was the supreme Lord of heaven and earth, and that the gods ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... render this service just because the habit is begun so very early, while boys are still in very close association with their mothers. I may seem to be contradicting what I have just said about mere warnings, but I would certainly say that any sort of arresting warning is better than inaction in the matter. Yet even in this matter any kind of harsh warning is not the best way. A boy can be taught that there is a certain sanctity about certain parts of his body. He can be taught to treat them scrupulously and hardily. ...

— Men, Women, and God • A. Herbert Gray

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