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ARRESTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Commanding attention
Example:
a stunning performance
Synonyms:
arresting; sensational; stunning
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb arrest
Context examples:
As the 6R diastereomer of 5,10-dideazatetrahydrofolate, lometrexol inhibits glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase (GARFT), the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the de novo purine biosynthetic pathway, thereby inhibiting DNA synthesis, arresting cells in the S phase of the cell cycle, and inhibiting tumor cell proliferation.
(Lometrexol, NCI Thesaurus)
His appearance and manner are peculiarly arresting, and as he raised his hand for order the whole audience settled down expectantly to give him a hearing.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His suspicions being aroused, the sergeant followed the man, and with the aid of Constable Pollock succeeded, after a most desperate resistance, in arresting him.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
