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All arrest antonyms

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noun arrest

  • assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
  • start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
  • go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
  • refusal — an act or instance of refusing.
  • liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • release — to lease again.
  • freedom — the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
  • rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • activation — to make active; cause to function or act.
  • continuation — The continuation of something is the fact that it continues, rather than stopping.
  • commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
  • aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.

verb arrest

  • liberate — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
  • misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
  • loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
  • take up — the act of taking.
  • activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
  • free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • unfasten — to release from or as from fastenings; detach.
  • assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
  • further — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
  • allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
  • promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • push — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • continue — If someone or something continues to do something, they keep doing it and do not stop.
  • reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
  • repel — to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
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