Arrest is valid Scrabble Word

Is arrest a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is arrest valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
6 points in WWF

Definitions for ARREST in dictionary:

VERB:

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)
take (a person) into custody
To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.

To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
To tarry; to rest.
The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
take into custody
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
attract and fix
cause to stop

NOUN:

the action of seizing someone and taking them into custody
a stoppage or sudden cessation of motion
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
the state of inactivity following an interruption
act of taking a person into custody

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to seize and hold by legal authority

Words related to ARREST

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Words that contain ARREST

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How to use ARREST in a sentence

I had not been on one since my arrest, and besides that the idea of travelling along the streets in open view of the British public rather appealed to me.
This made the members of the senate and the knights who were present afraid of arrest at their hands, and they took counsel for flight.
He ran over the evidence, and insisted on an immediate arrest.
When they were sent to arrest him the townspeople sallied to his support.
Mulkey was re-captured, and my own arrest was ordered.
This suspicion was considerably strengthened when the General was found dead in his prison, the morning after his arrest.
In the brief time which he had passed in the village after the arrest of Colleton, he had contrived to have something to say or do with almost everybody in it.
Except for the Baltimore riot and the arrest of her secession legislature during the first year of the war, her State government continued its regular functions.
It appears that Madame, then Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne, had ill-treated him on a former occasion when he attempted to arrest the Simeuse brothers.
Duplaine is liable to arrest, imprisonment, and other punishments, even capital, as other foreign subjects resident here.

But, says he, the arrest was made void by the parliament, and still he has continued there several weeks.
The impertinent officer arrived at the palace with his prisoner, under the impression that he would receive a handsome reward for making such a notable arrest.
The mayor, Whitington, himself ordered their arrest.
The chief wanted to arrest him immediately, but Harrington asked him to wait, in order that they might see what the man was after, and especially what he did with the books.
Immediately on His arrival He was placed under arrest, and a whole regiment guarded Him closely.
I did what I did because a fellow was resisting arrest.
It was necessary to have some charge upon which to arrest the man, and he determined to carry out a bold proceeding.
My faults are not the instruments that are to arrest his faults.
Soon after the arrival of these gentlemen, a royal order for their arrest was sent to Boston.
Twenty-five thousand dollars for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi.
You said you got word to him at one time and then you said he did not know of your arrest.
When the arrest was made, Euphemia had just risen from her bed, and was only partly dressed, when a little after daylight, several persons entered her room, and arrested her.
Olympia Brown and others made ringing speeches on the right of women to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, defended the course of Miss Anthony and denounced her arrest.
On the officers going to my lodging to arrest me, they found I had gone.

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