On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.
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Arrested
//əˈɹɛstɪd//
Synonyms for "arrested" (153 found)
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4 translations across 2 languages.
Esperanto
1 entries- arestita adj (having been placed under arrest)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- anholdt adj (having been placed under arrest)
- arrestert adj (having been placed under arrest)
- pågrepet adj (having been placed under arrest)
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When the accountant was arrested, rumour had it that it was for his creative bookkeeping.
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Rosa Parks was arrested, and the black community of Montgomery was shocked and angry.
Source: tatoeba (29452)
He was arrested by police after a TV chase in Osaka.
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