Arrest and Help

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

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Help is an antonym for arrest in topics: stop or slow, slowing or stopping.

Nearby Words: arresting, arrested, arrester

Help noun - An act or instance of helping.

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Arrest is an antonym for help.

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

good	good arrest	good help
physical	physical arrest	physical help
actual	actual arrest	actual help
real	real arrest	real help
Other adjectives: big, secret, major, immediate, possible, final, domestic, later, further, last, occasional.

person	arrest person	help person
girl	arrest girl	help girl
friend	arrest friend	help friend
man	arrest man	help man
Other words: guy, woman, group, family, someone, team, time, characters, brother, anyone, everyone, friends, guys, heroes.

At the end of "Bloody Harlan" Mags finds out that Dickie is alive and under arrest but instead of trying to help him, she chooses her other sons over him even though they are dead.

Source: Series / Justified
However, instead of wanting to arrest or kill them, he demanded to know why they ran off and didn't ask for his help.

Source: Inspector Javert
But they don't want to arrest him—they're after a much bigger threat, and they want his help.

Source: Literature / True Names

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