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Charged vs Arrested - What's the difference?

charged | arrested |

As verbs the difference between charged and arrested

is that charged is (charge) while arrested is (arrest).

As a adjective arrested is

having been stopped or prevented from developing.

charged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (charge)
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  • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

    arrested

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been stopped or prevented from developing
  • Verb

    arrested
  • (arrest)
  • Anagrams

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