| apprehend |
to catch and place under arrest. [1/2 definitions] |
| apprehension |
the act of catching and placing under arrest. [1/3 definitions] |
| arresting |
responsible for an arrest. [1/2 definitions] |
| bail1 |
money left with a court to make sure that a person who is set free after arrest will return for trial. [2/3 definitions] |
| bring in |
to arrest or conduct to a police station for questioning. [1/5 definitions] |
| bust2 |
(informal) to arrest. [1/4 definitions] |
| capias |
a legal document directing an officer to arrest a specific person. |
| citizen's arrest |
a legal arrest by a citizen, rather than an officer of the law, as permitted by common or written law. |
| collar |
(informal) to arrest or capture. [2/3 definitions] |
| entrap |
to entice or trick into committing a crime so as to make an arrest. [1/4 definitions] |
| ergot |
the grainlike masses produced by the ergot fungus, or the toxin they contain, which causes circulatory arrest in humans. [1/3 definitions] |
| false imprisonment |
any illegal detention or confinement, usu. the result of false arrest. |
| fixation |
the arrest of psychological development at some stage before maturity, esp. in early childhood. [1/3 definitions] |
| Freedom Rider |
any of the American civil rights activists who participated in the Freedom Rides, which highlighted and challenged racial discrimination in the United States in the early 1960s. Freedom Riders made bus trips through southern states, demonstrating that public facilities that should have been desegregated according to law were not in fact desegregated. Freedom Riders encountered intense violence along their journeys and many suffered arrest by the police. |
| house arrest |
legal confinement of a person under arrest in his or her home, a hospital, or a public building rather than in jail or prison. |
| nab |
(informal) to catch or seize; arrest. [1/2 definitions] |
| nick |
(chiefly British; slang) of the police, to arrest (someone) for an illegal act. [1/6 definitions] |
| pinch |
(informal) to take into police custody; arrest. [1/7 definitions] |
| postarrest |
combined form of arrest. |
| raid |
a surprise entry by police into private property to arrest someone or seize something. [1/3 definitions] |
| rearrest |
combined form of arrest. |