arrested

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of arrest.

   Officers arrested the suspect after a brief chase through the alley.

   She was arrested at the protest and held overnight.

   Note

   One regular -ed form does double duty: officers arrested him in the simple past, and he has been arrested or was arrested in the perfect and passive. Most uses take an object, from seizing a suspect to catching the eye (her attention was arrested by the painting). The medical use is the exception. A patient who has arrested has gone into cardiac arrest, with no object, so that use never turns passive.

2. 2
   adjective

   Currently held under arrest, or having been formally charged with a criminal offense.

   The arrested suspect requested a lawyer before answering any questions.

   Police transported the arrested individuals to the county jail overnight.

   Similarapprehended, captured

   Oppositefree

3. 3
   adjective

   Having been stopped or kept from developing further; halted before reaching completion.

   The pediatrician noted arrested development in the child's motor skills.

   Decades of isolation produced an economy in an arrested, almost frozen condition.

   Similarstunted, stopped, suspended, checked

   Oppositeadvanced, accelerated

   Note

   Here what stops is growth or a process, not a person: arrested development, an arrested economy. The adjective is absolute. A thing is arrested or it is not, so more arrested sounds wrong. The noun usually settles which meaning is in play. An arrested teenager is in custody, as in the police meaning, while a teenager's arrested growth has simply stopped.

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