arrestationn.
/arɛˈsteɪʃən/ The action of arresting; arrest.
a. Stopping.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation
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stoppage1657
arrestation1793
arrestment1836
stemming1914
turn-off1967
1793 T. Jefferson Let. 3 Oct. in Papers (1997) XXVII. 186 This necessary arrestation of the proceedings.
1881 W. Tyndall in Nature 15 Sept. 466/2 The arrestation of infusorial life.
b. Apprehension by legal authority. (More or less a Gallicism.)
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun]
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deprehension1527
prehension1534
apprehending1563
apprehension1577
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caption1609
deprension1654
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arrestation1792
body-snatching1840
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collar1865
fall1883
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cop1886
pinch1900
pickup1908
1792 H. M. Williams Lett. France I. i The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention.
1803 Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 70/2 The arrestation of Colonel Despard..at an obscure public house in Lambeth.
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus 96 That visit of Paul to Jerusalem, by which his arrestation and..confinement were produced.
1835 H. Reeve tr. A. de Tocqueville Democracy in Amer. I. v. 131 The arrestation of criminals.
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