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de-arrest

de-arrest is the alternative form of dearrest.

Meaning of dearrest

Verb

dearrest (third-person singular simple present dearrests, present participle dearresting, simple past and past participle dearrested)

  1. (transitive) To release (a person) from arrest.
    • Around midday, a 28-year-old local man was briefly arrested after he came close to the prime minister's group who had just left the Civic Hall in Leeds. No threats were made, and after the man's details were checked, he was de-arrested and allowed on his way.2014 October 27, BBC, “Jogger in PM security alert had 'no idea' what happened”, in BBC News
    Synonyms:
    disarrest

Forms of de-arrest

third-person singular presentde-arrests
present participlede-arresting
past participlede-arrested
pastde-arrested

Origin of de-arrest

From de- + arrest.

Questions about de-arrest

What is de-arrest the alternative form of?
De-arrest is the alternative form of dearrest.

Words near de-arrest in the dictionary

  1. de-appendicizing
  2. de-archive
  3. de-archived
  4. de-archives
  5. de-archiving
  6. de-arrest
  7. de-arrested
  8. de-arresting
  9. de-arrests
  10. de-attribution
  11. de-attributions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: de-arrest (page history and authors); dearrest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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