Meanings
- Arrested by the police.
be under arrest
5 more examples
place under arrest
put someone under arrest
‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’
1934 August 28, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6Three men got out and surrounded Mr Chard. They were police officers, and he was under arrest, charged with taking indecent pictures of his children under the Protection of Children Act 1978 (POCA).
1998, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: porn, sex, technology and desireOn Friday, the Thai police said he was under arrest and charged as a pedophile after computer experts had unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.
2007 October 20, Seth Mydans, “Thai Police Arrest Pedophile Suspect”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 被捕
- 被捕 (bèibǔ)arrested
Finnish pidätetty
- pidätettyarrested
French en état d'arrestation
- en état d'arrestationarrested
German verhaftet, in Haft
- verhaftetarrested
- in Haftarrested
- in Gewahrsamarrested
Italian in stato di arresto
- in stato di arrestoarrested
Polish aresztowany
- aresztowanyarrested
Russian под арестом
- под арестом (pod arestom)arrested
Cite this entry
under arrest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/under%20arrest
“under arrest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/under%20arrest. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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