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— English words —

• arrest n. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
• arrest n. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
• arrest n. (Law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
• arrest n. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
• arrest n. A device to physically arrest motion.
• arrest n. (Nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
• arrest n. (Obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
• arrest n. (Farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
• arrest v. (Obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
• arrest v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
• arrest v. (Transitive) To stop or slow (A process, course etc.).
• arrest v. (Transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
• arrest v. (Transitive) To catch the attention of.
• arrest v. (Intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan
  • arrest n. Arrest.
• Danish
  • arrest n. Arrest (the process of holding back a suspect).
  • arrest n. Confinement, detention (a short-time prison).
• Maltese
  • arrest n. Arrest, detention.
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • arrest n. Arrest, custody, detention.
• Swedish
  • arrest n. Arrest, custody, detention (state of being imprisoned or detained).

— English word, defined in German —

• arrest V. Festnehmen, verhaften.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• arrest n. Arrest.
• arrest w. Arresteren.

— English words, defined in French —

• arrest n. Arrestation.
• arrest v. (Vieilli) Arrêter (empêcher).
• arrest v. (Droit) Arrêter (un suspect).

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• arrest s. Arresto, detención.
• arrest v. Arrestar, atrapar, detener.
• arrest v. Controlar, detener.

— In German —

• Arrest S. Recht: eine Haft von kurzer Dauer.
• Arrest S. Ort, an dem eine Person während des Arrest festgehalten wird.
• Arrest S. Recht: Beschlagnahmung von Gütern.

— In Dutch —

• arrest n. Een aanhouding, arrestatie, gevangenneming.
• arrest n. (Juridisch) een uitspraak van een hogere rechter (in hoger…

— In French —

• Arrest n.prop. (Géographie) Commune située dans le département de la…

82 English words from 20 English definitions

A␣check act after against animal Any arrest arresting attention authority back being body body␣part cardiac cardiac␣arrest catch check claim condition confinement course criminal custody detained detention device etc Farriery financial hind hind␣leg holding holding␣back horse imprisoned instance into intransitive its judicial law leg legal medicine motion Nautical Obsolete of␣a operators otherwise part person physical physically power prison process remain scurfiness secure seize seizure ship short short␣time slow someone something standstill state state␣of␣being stay stop stopped suspect take the time transitive undergo with

15 English words from 15 foreign definitions

Arrest Arrestation Commune dans Dauer dem département des Droit een Haft Ort Person suspect van

30 foreign words from 15 foreign definitions

aanhouding Arrestar arrestatie Arresteren Arresto Arrêter atrapar Beschlagnahmung Controlar de␣la detención detener eine empêcher festgehalten Festnehmen Géographie gevangenneming Gütern Juridisch kurzer Recht rechter située uitspraak verhaften Vieilli von während wird

39 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

arrests arrested arrestee arrester arrestin arrestor arrestant arrestees arresters arrestest arresteth arresting arrestins arrestive arrestors arrestable arrestance arrestants arrestment arrestances arrestation arrester␣bed arrestingly arrestively arrestments arrestations arrester␣beds arrestability arrested␣decay arresting␣gear arrestingness arrestiveness arrest␣warrant arresting␣gears arrest␣warrants arrestable␣offence arrestable␣offences arrested␣development arrested␣developments

36 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

bar-resto bar/resto bar-restos bar/restos dearrests de-arrests rearrests unarrests dearrested de-arrested nonarrests rearrested unarrested dearresting de-arresting nonarrested rearresting self-arrests unarresting antiarrestin false␣arrests house␣arrests unarrestable angioarrestin antiarrestins spark␣arrester spark␣arrestor cardiac␣arrests spark␣arresters spark␣arrestors citizen's␣arrests citizens'␣arrests growth␣arrest␣line growth␣arrest␣lines lightning␣arrester lightning␣arresters

21 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

marrest warrest dearrest de-arrest rearrest re-arrest unarrest bizarrest nonarrest prearrest postarrest self-arrest false␣arrest house␣arrest under␣arrest cardiac␣arrest am␣I␣under␣arrest citizen's␣arrest resisting␣arrest warrant␣of␣arrest warrants␣of␣arrest

18 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

arr ARR arr. arré est Est EST -est est. Est. res RES Res. rest REST 'rest rest. Rest.

11 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

err Err. ser SER ser. Serr serra Serra tse Tse TSE

11 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

arrets arrêts Arters rarest raster raters retars starer starre tarres terras

100 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

armrest arrects arrests 'Arriets artiers artires artsier artures barrets Barrets barters Barters carters craters darters Darters dartres errants erratas farters fraters Fraters garrets garters graters Graters Harters karters kraters marrest marster Marters Parrets parters praters Racster rafters Rafters ranters Ranters rapters rasters rathers Rathers ratters rearest rearset Red␣Star reparts rerates +50 words

44 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Aerts arets arret arrêt arste arter Arter aster -aster aster- Aters earst 'earts rares rater rates rears reast resat retar RRATs Sarre Sater Satre serra Serra setar stare starr Starr stear tares tarre Tarrs tarse taser Taser TASer tears teras terra Terra terrs Tesar

7 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

abrest airest armest arnest arrect at␣rest errest

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

arret arrêt

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

armrest

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