Arrest and Beginning

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Arrest noun - The act of taking into one's control by authority of law.

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Beginning is an antonym for arrest in slowing or stopping topic.

Nearby Words: arresting, arrested, arrester

Beginning noun - The point at which something begins.

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Arrest is an antonym for beginning.

Nearby Words: begin, beginner

good	good arrest	good beginning
full	full arrest	full beginning
perfect	perfect arrest	perfect beginning
routine	routine arrest	routine beginning
Other adjectives: actual, real, successful, secret, final, mere, last, latter.

Police Brutality: Swindle's arrest at the hands of Orion Pax at the beginning of the mini-series borders on it.

Source: Comic Book / The Transformers: Autocracy
The aptly named "Cardiac Arrest" by Madness features a heartbeat at the beginning of the song.

Source: Heartbeat Soundtrack
He attempted to arrest the ringleaders of the opposition cause, but they had escaped and he looked foolish, running away from London (which given Britain Is Only London was a mistake) raising his standard at Nottingham in 1642 — so beginning the English Civil Wars.

Source: Useful Notes / The House of Stuart

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