RESISTING ARREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resisting arrest mean? 

• RESISTING ARREST (noun)
  The noun RESISTING ARREST has 1 sense:

1. physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest

  Familiarity information: RESISTING ARREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESISTING ARREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("resisting arrest" is a kind of...):

assault and battery; battery (an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact)

assault (close fighting during the culmination of a military attack)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)