Meaning

• A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

• The condition of being stopped, standstill.

• The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

• A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

• A device to physically arrest motion.

• The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

• Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

• A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

Meaning

• To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

• To stay, remain.

• To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

• To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

  "The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry."

• To catch the attention of.

• To undergo cardiac arrest.