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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