arrest

arrest is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
2. transitive verb. To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
3. transitive verb. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
4. transitive verb. To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
5. intransitive verb. To tarry; to rest.
6. transitive verb. The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
7. transitive verb. The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
8. transitive verb. Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
9. transitive verb. A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
10. noun. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

    "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

    Synonyms: apprehension, catch, collar, pinch

11. noun. the state of inactivity following an interruption

    "the negotiations were in arrest"

    "held them in check"

    Synonyms: check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage

12. verb. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

    "Arrest the downward trend"

    "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"

    Synonyms: check, contain, stop

13. verb. take into custody

    "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

    Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail

14. verb. attract and fix

    "His look caught her"

    "She caught his eye"

    Synonyms: catch, get

15. verb. cause to stop

    "Halt the engines"

    "Arrest the progress"

    Synonyms: halt, hold

Synonyms

apprehension, catch, collar, pinch, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage, contain, apprehend, cop, nab, nail, get, hold

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in arrest:

astrer, rarest, raster, raters, sartre, starer, tarres, terras, treasr

Common word forms

arrests, arrested, arrester, arresting, arrestable, arrestment

Words from these letters

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