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

1 sense of taking into custody

Sense 1
apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody -- (the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar")
       => capture, gaining control, seizure -- (the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property)