Definitions
1.nounA check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2.nounThe condition of being stopped, standstill.
3.nounThe process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4.nounA confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5.nounA device to physically arrest motion.
6.nounThe judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7.nounAny seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
8.nounA scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
9.verbTo stop the motion of (a person or animal).
10.verbTo stay, remain.
11.verbTo stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
12.verbTo seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody."The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry."
13.verbTo catch the attention of.
14.verbTo undergo cardiac arrest.