Commit and Arrest

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

noun

• The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal. )
  • usage: "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
  • synonyms: apprehension, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
• The state of inactivity following an interruption.
  • usage: "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
  • synonyms: check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage

verb

• Take into custody.
  • usage: "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
  • synonyms: collar, nail, apprehend, pick up, nab, cop
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
  • usage: "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
  • synonyms: check, turn back, stop, contain, hold back
• Attract and fix.
  • usage: "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter"
  • synonyms: catch, get
• Cause to stop.
  • usage: "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
  • synonyms: halt, hold

• (v.t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate or warrant.
• (v.t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
• (v.t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
• (v.t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
• (v.t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
• (v.t.) To take, seize or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt or for a crime.
• (v.t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
• (v.t.) The act of stopping or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
• (v.i.) To tarry; to rest.