Retaining through life an infantile or a juvenile state of development with respect to any organ. Modifications of structure from arrested development, so great or so serious as to deserve to be called monstrosities, are of common occurrence.

adjective. Having been stopped or prevented from developing

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of arrest.

"His deputy chief of police, Gerold Dompig, used the broader term, detained, but as I say, his boss using the term arrested at this stage."

attested  bested  breasted  chested  congested  

babbling  back  backward  behind  behindhand  

arrest