1. arrest - Noun
2. arrest - Verb
To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
To tarry; to rest.
The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYour commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. Boris Yeltsin
You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar. Sid Vicious
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. André Gide
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. Abraham Lincoln