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How to pronounce “arrest”
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Pronunciation guide for arrest
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of arrest with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Weapons of Math Destruction
But blacks get arrested a lot more-- a lot more for that.
- Definition summary
- A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce arrest
Weapons of Math Destruction
But blacks get arrested a lot more-- a lot more for that.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “arrest”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse[1]
- [Verb]
- (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). [14th–19th c.]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th–16th c.]
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
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