Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“arrested” is a form of

arrest

/əˈɹɛst/ noun, verb

Forms arrests arresting arrested

  1. noun A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
  2. noun The condition of being stopped, standstill. “cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest”
  3. noun (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. “State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.”
  4. noun A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  5. noun A device to physically arrest motion.
  6. noun (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  7. noun (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  8. noun (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
  9. verb (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
  10. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain.
  11. verb (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
  12. verb (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. “The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.”
  13. verb (transitive) To catch the attention of.
  14. verb (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.

Synonyms

freeze cease apprehend attract halt discontinue seize dazzle engage entice apprehension catch collar pinch taking into custody check hitch stay stop stoppage nail pick up nab cop turn back contain hold back get hold

Etymology

From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
  2. verb To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
  3. verb To tarry; to rest. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. noun The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.

Etymology [OE. aresten, OF. arester, F. arrêter, fr. LL. arrestare; L. ad + restare to remain, stop; re + stare to stand. See Rest remainder.]

Etymology [OE. arest, arrest, OF. arest, F. arrêt, fr. arester. See Arrest, v. t., Arr.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “arrest”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “arrest” (best matches first).

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