The difference between Arrest and Seize
When used as verbs, arrest means to stop the motion of (a person or animal), whereas seize means to deliberately take hold of.
Arrest is also noun with the meaning: a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
check bellow for the other definitions of Arrest and Seize
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Arrest as a noun:
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
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Arrest as a noun:
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
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Arrest as a noun (legal):
The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
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Arrest as a noun:
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
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Arrest as a noun:
A device to physically arrest motion.
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Arrest as a noun (nautical):
The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
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Arrest as a noun (obsolete):
Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
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Arrest as a noun (farriery):
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
Examples:
"rfquotek White"
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Arrest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
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Arrest as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To stay, remain.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
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Arrest as a verb (transitive):
To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
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Arrest as a verb (transitive):
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
Examples:
"The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry."
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Arrest as a verb (transitive):
To catch the attention of.
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Seize as a verb (transitive):
To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
Examples:
"synonyms: clasp grasp grip Thesaurus:grasp"
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Seize as a verb (transitive):
To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
Examples:
"synonyms: jump on"
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Seize as a verb (transitive):
To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
Examples:
"synonyms: arrogate commandeer confiscate"
"to seize smuggled goods"
"to seize a ship after libeling"
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Seize as a verb (transitive):
To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
Examples:
"a panic seized the crowd"
"a fever seized him"
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Seize as a verb (transitive, nautical):
To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
Examples:
"to seize two fish-hooks back to back"
"to seize or stop one rope on to another"
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Seize as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To fasten, fix.
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Seize as a verb (intransitive):
To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ or ).
Examples:
"to seize on the neck of a horse"
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Seize as a verb (intransitive):
To have a seizure.
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Seize as a verb (intransitive):
To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
Examples:
"Rust caused the engine to seize, never to run again."
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Seize as a verb (UK, intransitive):
To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.