Arrest



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 依法逮捕; 阻止, 抑制
• ［英］ v. 阻止, 抑制 ( stop or check)
• ［类］ 反义词: vitalize ( 激发)
• ［例］ The police made several arrests.

Webster Collegiate

I. transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English aresten, from Anglo-French arester to stop, arrest, from Vulgar Latin *arrestare, from Latin ad- + restare to remain — more at rest
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. to bring to a stop sickness arrested his activities
  • b. check, slow
  • c. to make inactive an arrested tumor
• 2. seize, capture; specifically to take or keep in custody by authority of law
• 3. to catch suddenly and engagingly arrest attention
• • arrester also arrestor noun
• • arrestment noun

II. noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. the act of stopping
  • b. the condition of being stopped or inactive — compare cardiac arrest
• 2. the taking or detaining in custody by authority of law

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