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arrest
English
Etymology
From Old French arester (“to stay, stop”), from Vulgar Latin *arrest?, from Latin ad- (“to”) + rest? (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + st? (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- +? rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????st/
- Hyphenation: ar?rest
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
arrest (countable and uncountable, plural arrests)
- A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
Derived terms
- arrest warrant
- cardiac arrest
- house arrest
Translations
Verb
arrest (third-person singular simple present arrests, present participle arresting, simple past and past participle arrested)
- (obsolete, transitive) To stop the motion of (a person or animal). [14th-19th c.]
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 86:
- Mr. Van Rensberg broke the spell by arresting Martha as she trailed past him on Billy's arm, by pointing his pipestem at her and saying, ‘Hey, Matty, come here a minute.’
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 86:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 707:
- To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 707:
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. [from 14th c.]
- The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
- (transitive) To catch the attention of. [from 19th c.]
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
- There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
- 2004, Euan A. Ashley, Josef Niebauer, Cardiology Explained (page 66)
- Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.
- 2004, Euan A. Ashley, Josef Niebauer, Cardiology Explained (page 66)
Synonyms
- (to stop the motion of): freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
- (to stay):
- (to stop or slow a process): cease, discontinue; See also Thesaurus:desist
- (to seize someone): apprehend, seize; See also Thesaurus:capture
- (to catch the attention of): attract, dazzle, engage, entice; See also Thesaurus:allure
Derived terms
- arrester, arrestor
- arrestment
- arresting
- arrestive
Related terms
- arrestation
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Arters, arrêts, rarest, raster, raters, retars, starer, starre, tarres, terras
Catalan
Noun
arrest m (plural arrests or arrestos)
- arrest
Derived terms
- ordre d'arrest
Danish
Etymology
Via German Arrest from Middle French arrest (“arrest”) (French arrêt), derived from the verb arrester (“to hold back, arrest”) (arrêter), borrowed to Danish arrestere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a??asd?], [a???sd?]
Noun
arrest c (singular definite arresten, plural indefinite arrester)
- arrest (the process of holding back a suspect)
- confinement, detention (a short-time prison)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch arrest, from Old French arest.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??r?st/
- Hyphenation: ar?rest
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
arrest n (plural arresten, diminutive arrestje n)
- (law) sentence passed by a higher court
- (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling
- (law, historical) detention, confinement, especially after being arrested
Derived terms
- huisarrest
- kamerarrest
- stadsarrest
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: ares
Anagrams
- raster, terras
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old French arester
Noun
arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrester, definite plural arrestene)
- arrest, custody, detention
Derived terms
- husarrest
- politiarrest
Related terms
- arrestasjon
- arrestere
References
- “arrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old French arester
Noun
arrest m (definite singular arresten, indefinite plural arrestar, definite plural arrestane)
- arrest, custody, detention
Derived terms
- husarrest
- politiarrest
Related terms
- arrestasjon
- arrestere
References
- “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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choke
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?k
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??o?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English choken (also cheken), from Old English ??ocian, ???ocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ??oce, ??ace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.
Alternative forms
- choak (obsolete)
- choake (obsolete)
- chock (dialectal)
Verb
choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
- 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 6, p. 66,[1]
- Lenore began to choke with the fine dust and to feel her eyes smart and to see it settle on her hands and dress.
- 1919, Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 6, p. 66,[1]
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- Synonyms: asphyxiate, strangle, suffocate, throttle
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[2]
- With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 8.33,[3]
- Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, pp. 282-283,[4]
- The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other […]
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- Synonyms: block up, bung up, clog, congest, jam, obstruct, stop up
- 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 120, 14 January, 1709, in The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq., London, 1712, Volume 3, p. 31,[5]
- This was a Passage, so rugged, so uneven, and choaked with so many Thorns and Briars, that it was a melancholy Spectacle to behold the Pains and Difficulties which both Sexes suffered who walked through it.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, 1992, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 492,[6]
- But at Christmas the pavements were crowded with overdressed shoppers from the country, the streets choked with slow but strident traffic.
- 2012, Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists, New York: Weinstein Books, Chapter 13, p. 168,[7]
- The waterfall is now a trickle, and the pool is choked with algae and drowned leaves and broken-off branches.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- Synonyms: choke out, stifle
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene I,[8]
- Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
- Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
- And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 13.7,[9]
- And some [seeds] fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), “The Fifth Pastoral,” lines 55-56, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 22,[10]
- No fruitful Crop the sickly Fields return;
- But Oats and Darnel choak the rising Corn.
- 1998, Nuruddin Farah, Secrets, Penguin, 1999, Chapter 3, p. 67,[11]
- I have cut maize stalks or green plants with which he means to choke the flames.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- 2019, “1 Point Away, Serena Stunned by Pliskova at Australian Open,” The New York Times, 22 January, 2019,[12]
- “I can’t say that I choked on those match points,” Williams said. “She literally played her best tennis ever on those shots.”
- 2019, “1 Point Away, Serena Stunned by Pliskova at Australian Open,” The New York Times, 22 January, 2019,[12]
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- 1973, Wayne Otto et al., Corrective and Remedial Teaching, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edition, Chapter 13, p. 361,[13]
- A brief tryout will demonstrate that the modified grip does indeed make it difficult to “choke” the pencil or apply excessive pressure to the paper.
- 1973, Wayne Otto et al., Corrective and Remedial Teaching, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edition, Chapter 13, p. 361,[13]
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- Synonym: stick
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 18,[14]
- […] the words choked in his throat.
- 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Part 3, Chapter 29, p. 413,[15]
- Speech choked in Eugene’s throat.
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- 1684, Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister, London, “The Amours of Philander and Silvia,” p. 277,[16]
- A hundred times fain he would have spoke, but still his rising Passion choak’d his Words;
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14,[17]
- […] tears choked the utterance of the dame de compagnie, and she buried her crushed affections and her poor old red nose in her pocket handkerchief.
- 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Chapter 9,[18]
- At that I opened my mouth to speak, and found a hoarse phlegm choked my voice.
- 1905, William John Locke, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, Chapter 20,[19]
- Her laugh got choked by a sob.
- 1967, Chaim Potok, The Chosen, New York: Ballantine, 1982, Chapter 18, p. 282,[20]
- Danny let out a soft, half-choked, trembling moan.
- 1684, Aphra Behn, Love-Letters between a Noble-man and his Sister, London, “The Amours of Philander and Silvia,” p. 277,[16]
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- 1894, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 48,[21]
- Grobstock began to choke with chagrin.
- 2007, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 435,[22]
- Tajirika felt himself choking with anger. How dare those hussies interfere with his business?
- 1894, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 48,[21]
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in The Works of J.S., Dublin: George Faulkner, 1735, Volume 1, p. 104,[23]
- […] I am very sensible how much the Gentlemen of Wit and Pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choqued at the Sight of so many daggled-tail Parsons, who happen to fall in their Way, and offend their Eyes […]
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, Act IV, p. 80,[24]
- I shall run distracted. My rage choaks me.
- 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Chapter 13,[25]
- And my remembrance of them both, choking me, I broke down […] and laid my face in my hands upon the table.
- 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 42,[26]
- Charlotte made herself stiff, controlling sudden choking emotion.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in The Works of J.S., Dublin: George Faulkner, 1735, Volume 1, p. 104,[23]
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 6,[27]
- ‘There is the padre!’ Kim choked as bare-headed Father Victor sailed down upon them from the veranda.
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, London: Faber and Faber, 1997, Epilogue, p. 583,[28]
- “The bastards!” he choked. “I hope they are all caught and hanged!”
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 6,[27]
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1962, Chapter 26, p. 492,[29]
- The engine caught, spluttered, and roared as Tom choked the car delicately.
- 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1962, Chapter 26, p. 492,[29]
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
Translations
Noun
choke (plural chokes)
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) choking coil
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Back-formation from artichoke.
Noun
choke (plural chokes)
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
French
Verb
choke
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /t??k/
- inflection of choker:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Hawaiian Creole
Etymology
From English choke.
Pronoun
choke
- a lot, many
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