Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun resisting_arrest

1 sense of resisting arrest

Sense 1
resisting arrest -- (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)
       => assault -- (close fighting during the culmination of a military attack)
       => battery, assault and battery -- (an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact)