B1 If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed.逮捕;拘捕
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He put up a fight when the police tried to arrest him.
23 people were arrested and large quantities of heroin were seized in a dawn raid.
Police arrested several of the demonstrators.
The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
A woman and two men were arrested on the day after the explosion.
formal to stop or interrupt the development of something阻止;抑制
formal to attract or catch someone's attention引起(某人的注意)
B2 the act of arresting someone逮捕;拘捕
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The bomb attack was in retaliation for the recent arrest of two well-known terrorists.
His lawyer put him in the picture about what had happened since his arrest.
The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.
After his arrest in 1998, he checked himself into rehab to get over his heroin addiction.
wrongful arrest
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