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ar·rest·ing
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antimitotic
acting against mitosis -
arresting gear
any mechanism or device for bringing something to a stop, as an airplane landing on an aircraft carrier. -
bribe
A bribe is a sum of money or something valuable that one person offers or gives to another in order to persuade him or her to do something. -
cardioplegia
deliberate arrest of the action of the heart, as by hypothermia or the injection of chemicals, to enable complex heart surgery to be carried out -
catchpole
(in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors -
curare
black resin obtained from certain tropical South American trees, esp Chondrodendron tomentosum, acting on the motor nerves to cause muscular paralysis: used medicinally as a muscle relaxant and by South American Indians as an arrow poison