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Synonyms for arrest

Synonyms for arrest: hold and stop. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb · 2 reason lines · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for arrest

holdverb, in the sense "cause to come to an abrupt stop"
stopverb, in the sense "hold back, as of a danger or an enemy"

Each of these belongs to a different sense of arrest, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsMovement

cause to come to an abrupt stop

Arrest the progress.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

hold

Same sentence, swapped: Hold the progress.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for arrest in the sentence quoted.

cop
cut
brake

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsCompetition

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy

Arrest the downward trend.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

stop

Same sentence, swapped: Stop the downward trend.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot arrest is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

cop
protect
bulwark

Where arrest turns up in the game

arrest is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where arrest is the trap

strikeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is scratch, in the sense "remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line", with arrest sitting one tile away.

Play arrest

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so arrest reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. arrest carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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