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What does arresting mean?

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  1. present participle of arrest
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One would assume that Mills, coming from the progressive, underground garage movement, would buttress his raps with arresting beats.
In this arresting poem, she describes treeing a raccoon at night and capturing it on film.
The refurbished zinc roof forms an arresting contrast with the cream tiled and rendered walls of the main building.
Police also went on the rampage after the demonstration, attacking shoppers and arresting children.
Most composers from Bach on play the double game of creating arresting individual variations and a rhetorically dramatic whole.
This poem is an arresting comment on the similar experiences of oppression suffered by Maori and by American Indians.

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