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arrested

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //əˈɹɛstɪd//

Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of arrestsimple past and past participle of arrest

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.

  2. 2

    Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).