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RESISTING ARREST
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I. (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)
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