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Arrest is the action of the police or another authority to apprehend and take under guard a person who is suspected of committing a crime.

Contents

• Places
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Other uses
• See also

Arrest and its derivations may also refer to:

Places

• Arrest, Somme, a commune of the Somme département in France
• Arresting, Germany, a village

Arts, entertainment, and media

• "Arrested" (Modern Family), an episode of the television series Modern Family
• "The Arrest", a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar

Other uses

• Ship arrest, a procedure under maritime law
• Arrest, a feature of the development of some nematodes, similar to the dauer larva stage
• "Arrested landing" or arrestment, the use by an aircraft of a tailhook to bring it to a stop upon landing (either on a ship or land)
  • Arresting gear, used to slow an aircraft as it lands
• Cardiac arrest, the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract effectively
• Respiratory arrest

See also

• Arrested development (disambiguation)

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