1. arrest

verb. ['ɝˈɛst'] take into custody.

Rhymes with Arrest

• self-professed
• transgressed
• unimpressed
• telequest
• stateswest
• intrawest
• eastern-west
• dispossessed
• unaddressed
• telewest
• repossessed
• reinvest
• progressed
• northwest
• indigest
• expressed
• distressed
• compressed
• undressed
• sylvest
• suppressed
• suggest
• southwest
• request
• repressed
• reassessed
• protest
• professed
• penwest
• norwest

How do you pronounce arrest?

Pronounce arrest as ərˈɛst.

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Sentences with arrest

1. Noun, singular or mass
You may have a warrant out for your arrest without even being aware of it.

2. Verb, base form
* The arresting officer had probable cause to arrest the driver.

Quotes about arrest

1. To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

2. Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
- Warren Ellis

2. arrest

noun. ['ɝˈɛst'] the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).

3. arrest

verb. ['ɝˈɛst'] hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.

4. arrest

verb. ['ɝˈɛst'] attract and fix.

5. arrest

noun. ['ɝˈɛst'] the state of inactivity following an interruption.

6. arrest

verb. ['ɝˈɛst'] cause to stop.