ar·rest
[uh-rest]
1. to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
2.to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage: The loud noise arrested our attention.
3.to check the course of; stop; slow down: to arrest progress.
4.Medicine/Medical . to control or stop the active progress of (a disease): The new drug did not arrest the cancer.
–noun
5.the taking of a person into legal custody, as by officers of the law.
6.any seizure or taking by force.
7.an act of stopping or the state of being stopped: the arrest of tooth decay.
8.Machinery . any device for stopping machinery; stop.
—Idiom
9.under arrest, in custody of the police or other legal authorities: They placed the suspect under arrest at the scene of the crime.