Arresting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ARRESTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ARREST, to bring to a standstill
• seize (someone) by legal authority and take them into custody
• seize and detain (a ship) by legal authority
• stop or check (progress or a process)
• suffer a heart attack
• attract the attention of (someone)
NOUN:
• the action of seizing someone and taking them into custody
• a stoppage or sudden cessation of motion
ADJECTIVE:
• attracting attention, striking
• Striking; attracting attention; impressive.
• commanding attention
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to seize and hold by legal authority

Words related to ARRESTING

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Words that contain ARRESTING

arrestingly15 rearresting12

How to use ARRESTING in a sentence

• Narayan Singh had orders not to do anything but guard Grim against assault, for Grim judged it wise to leave Yussuf Dakmar at large than to precipitate a climax by arresting him.
• He has the knack of arresting any little advantages floating on the stream of travel, and securing them for our benefit.
• In 1032, a new magistrate was created, called the Provost of Paris, whose duty it was to give assistance to the bourgeois in arresting persons for debt.
• If you had had more experience in such matters you would know the folly of arresting a man first and getting facts to warrant the arrest afterward.
• It was as if a sinister hand had been laid upon her, arresting her.
• Marshal of Baltimore released him, arresting Rogers and bringing him to Baltimore City where he was reprimanded by the Federal Judge.
• The cavasse made an arresting gesture and followed discreetly and noiselessly after the others, leaving Benham alone in the dark.
• First he gave the enthusiast a drink as a reward for arresting me, and then, impartially, gave me one for being arrested.
• We handle the disease both by treating the sick person himself, and by finding the causes that lead to its spread, and arresting these.
• He would not believe a man could be mistaken in that face, in that exquisite and arresting personality.
• Several Spanish frigates being expected, the British Government charged four vessels of the same rate with the task of arresting them.
• I found myself compelled to differ with him in arresting Monsieur Robert Darzac, who is innocent.
• Any single State, even if no other should come into the measure, would find its interest in arresting foreign bank-paper immediately, and its own by degrees.
• The pointed Van Dyck beard was as carefully trimmed, the hazel eyes, with their misleading softness of appeal, as arresting as of old.
• He was not yet supplied with evidence enough to warrant arresting Warfield and Hawkins, but he hoped to get it when the real crisis came.
• In fine, a tale short as such go nowadays, but throughout of an arresting and memorable beauty.
• He succeeded in arresting Michael Strogoff, and then sent for Marfa to appear before him.
• In the event of a general outbreak, it might be proper that the government should be armed with the power of arresting objects of its suspicion without trial.
• For a whole day the notion of arresting Basterga on a charge of treason, and seizing the steel casket together with his papers, was uppermost.
• It is not my voice, it is this cessation of ordinary pursuits, this arresting of all attention, these solemn ceremonies, and this crowded house, which speak their eulogy.
• The lieutenant-governor and city authorities think it unlawful, and propose to break it up by arresting the delegates.
• Suddenly there was a scuffle hard by me, and, turning round, I saw a powerful gentlemanly man wrestling with two others in livery, who were evidently intent on arresting him.
• A comprehensive protective system may include fuses, but it is not to be expected that they always will arrest lightning or even assist other things in arresting lightning.

Similar words containing ARREST without suffix ing

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