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arrest Verb- arrestar, aprisionar, capturar, aprehender, detener, llevar en custodia, prender, retener por la fuerza, aprehender; Synonyms: apprehend, detain, imprison, nab, pull in, put under arrest; Take into custody.
The police arrests thieves, La policía aprehende ladrones.
The police nabbed the suspected criminals.
- arrestar, paralizar; Synonyms: stop, halt, stalemate, paralyze, paralyse; Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of. ; Cause to stop.
The police arrested the strike, La policía arrestó el paro.
Arrest the downward trend.
Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia.
Contain the rebel movement.
Turn back the tide of communism.
Halt the engines.
Arrest the progress.
Halt the presses.
- parar; Synonyms: suspend, check, cut out, stop, ward off; Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it. ; Make inoperative or stop. ; As of a prison sentence.
arrest Noun- arresto, captura, detención, aprehensión, prendimiento; Synonyms: capture, seizure, detention, pickup, pinch, apprehension, arresting, detainer, remand; The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).
The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar.
- paro, cese de una función corporal; Synonyms: cessation of a body function, deadlock; Cessation of a body function. ; The state of inactivity following an interruption.
The negotiations were in arrest.
Held them in check.
During the halt he got some lunch.
The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow.
He spent the entire stop in his seat.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An 'arrest' is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in
relation to the investigation and prevention of crime. The term is Anglo-Norman
in origin and is related to the French word arrêt, meaning "stop".
* This article uses material from Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
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* English Definitions From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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