0 If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed: --
1 to stop or interrupt the development of something: --
3 the act of arresting someone: --
4 (of the police) to use legal authority to catch and take someone to a place where the person may be accused of a crime: --
5 to stop or slow an activity: --
Antibiotics arrest the development of harmful bacteria.
Only persons arrested at both age periods were defined as persistent criminals.
A significant linear trend was found, whereas quadratic and cubic trends, which would have indicated slowed or arrested development, were not significant.
Besides disorderly conduct, the police increasingly arrested young people for theft.
Late nestling cuckoos have evolved perceptible signals to manipulate the passerine nervous system by initiating and then arresting or interrupting normal processing.
Why was the village head omitted when his accomplices were arrested the next day, and why was he still at liberty?
At the end of the war he went into hiding, but was arrested in 1948, tried and sentenced to death.
The policeman arrested the supervisor of the bodyguards who was wearing a black suit.
There would be no need for curfew as all the dissidents were arrested at less than the first second of the coup.