| Main Entry: |
take into custody
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put under arrest |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, arrest, bust, capture, collar, nab, pick up, run down, seize, take prisoner |
| Main Entry: | book |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrest |
| Synonyms: | accuse, charge, prefer charges, take into custody |
| Antonyms: | exonerate, free, let go |
| Main Entry: | capture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | catch and forcefully hold |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, arrest, bag*, bust, catch, collar, conquer, cop, gain control, get, grab*, hook*, land, nab, nail, net, occupy, overwhelm, pick up*, pinch*, prehend, pull in, put the cuffs on, round up, run in, secure, seize, snare, snatch, take, take captive, take into custody, take prisoner, trap, tumble |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, liberate, lose, release |
| Main Entry: | nab |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | seize |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, arrest, capture, catch, clutch, cop, detain, grab, nail, pick up*, run in, snatch*, take into custody, take* |
| Antonyms: | let go, release |
| Main Entry: | pick up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrest for crime |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, book*, bust, collar, detain, nab, pinch*, pull in, run in, take into custody |
| Antonyms: | free, release |
| Main Entry: | pinch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrest |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, bust, collar, detain, hold, nab, pick up*, pull in, run in, take into custody |
| Antonyms: | free, release |
| Main Entry: | pull in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrest |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, bust, collar, detain, nab, nail, pick up, pinch, run in, take into custody |
| Antonyms: | exonerate, free, let go |
| Main Entry: | run in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrest |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, bust, collar, cop, detain, handcuff, jail, nab, pick up, pinch*, pull in, put the cuffs on, take into custody, throw in jail |
| Antonyms: | exonerate, free, let go |
| Concept: | Book. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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-nouns
booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book., part, issue, number, livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal., paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream, chapter, section head, article, paragraph, passage, clause., folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo., encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press (publication)., writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny-a-liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; powt., bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookseller's shop., knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning (knowledge).
-phrases
"among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton); "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; "volumes
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