different between suppress vs arrest

English

Etymology

Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprim? (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + prem? (“press”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??p??s/
• Rhymes: -?s
• Hyphenation: sup?press

Verb

suppress (third-person singular simple present suppresses, present participle suppressing, simple past and past participle suppressed)

1. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.

   Political dissent was brutally suppressed.

2. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.

   I struggled to suppress my smile.

3. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.

   He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.

4. To prevent publication.

   The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.

5. To stop a flow or stream.

   The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.

   Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.

6. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
7. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
8. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

Derived terms

• suppression
• suppressor

Translations

Further reading

• suppress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• suppress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• press-ups

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)

1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
3. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
5. A device to physically arrest motion.
6. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
7. (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.

8. (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)

1. (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.’

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stay, remain. [14th-16th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

3. (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.

4. (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.
5. (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.

6. (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.

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)

1. 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)

1. arrest (the process of holding back a suspect)
2. 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)

1. (law) sentence passed by a higher court
2. (law) confiscation ordered by a legal ruling
3. (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)

1. 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)

1. arrest, custody, detention

Derived terms

• husarrest
• politiarrest

Related terms

• arrestasjon
• arrestere

References

• “arrest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.