| verb | take into custody “the police nabbed the suspected criminals” |
| verb | hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of “Arrest the downward trend” |
| verb | attract and fix “His look caught her” |
| verb | cause to stop “Halt the engines” |
| adjective | commanding attention “an arresting drawing of people turning into animals” |
| collar | noun | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) |
| apprehension | noun | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) |
| apprehender | noun | a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) |
| arrest | noun | the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) |
| pickup | noun | a warrant to take someone into custody |
| cop | noun | uncomplimentary terms for a policeman |
| stop | noun | a restraint that checks the motion of something |
| containment | noun | a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully |
| halt | noun | the event of something ending |
| hold | noun | time during which some action is awaited |
| arrester | noun | a restraint that slows airplanes as they land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier |