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What is the adjective for arrestments?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb arrest which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

arrested
  1. Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.
  2. Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Other researchers discovered the significant fact that fingerprints were unchanging over time, and getting a set of prints from an arrested criminal proved much easier than taking measurements.”
arrestable
  1. (law enforcement) Capable of, or suitable for, being arrested (taken into police custody).
  2. (law) For which one can be arrested (taken into police custody).
  3. Examples:
    1. “He pressed for legislation making it an arrestable offence to carry an imitation gun or air weapon in public.”
      “This streaker has committed at least two arrestable offences by showing himself in public and running onto the pitch.”
      “I'm pretty sure that taking a leak in the street is an arrestable offence if you're not a dog or a toddler.”
arrestive
  1. Tending to arrest.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Similarly he could disguise his voice, the natural tones of which were low, monotonous, and of no arrestive quality.”
      “Having such a large amount of skin touching the glass while it grew more and more algid was getting to be quite arrestive.”
      “His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.”
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