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arrested

adjective as in taken into custody

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Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death.

Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.

But consider how citizens here in the States are now being arrested for posting threatening messages aimed at police on Facebook.

And only 1.6 percent of the cases led to someone being arrested and sentenced.

When the man threatened to report him for harassment to the NOPD, Farrell arrested him.

Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.

Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?

He recounts at much length the reasons for which he supposes the governor arrested him.

In running over many words, the intellect might be arrested by chance.

He was at once arrested, and on October 13th tried by court martial, condemned to death, and executed a few hours later.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to arrested, such as: jailed, seized, and under arrest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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