n.
1.the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
2.the state of inactivity following an interruption arrest v.
1.take into custody
2.hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
3.attract and fix
4.cause to stop
Idiom of the Day
stretch the point
to interpret a point very flexibly, to exaggerate something
It is stretching the point to think that the new company policy will let us take a two-hour lunch break.