unarrest
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of cancelling an arrest.
Example Sentences
- "She was swearing at the police who were trying to deal with a domestic incident. I had to break up the situation, the harassment was interfering with them dealing with the original fight. It was decided to unarrest her when we realised her age."
- "They were subsequently unarrested and released into their parents’ custody on Friday evening."
- "However, it has been suggested to the Committee that police will not utilise this power because there will be a fear of the "unarrest" being used as evidence of a wrongful arrest."
- "Several unarrests, and only two total successful arrests, occurred at the Navy Memorial."
- "These long stops essentially consist of a form of illegal, undocumented arrest, an investigation, and an “unarrest”—a wholly unconstitutional process."
Etymology
From un- + arrest.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un