arrest
/əˈɹɛst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.55 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest"
- "State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city."
- "The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit."
- "An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce."
- "Nor could her virtues, nor repeated vows Of thousand lovers, the relentless hand Of Death arrest;"
- "Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’"
Etymology
From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).