Usually means: Stopping progress or forward movement.
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  1. arrestive: Merriam-Webster
  2. arrestive: Collins English Dictionary
  3. arrestive: Wordnik
  4. arrestive: Wiktionary
  5. arrestive: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Arrestive, arrestive: Dictionary.com
  7. Arrestive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. arrestive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Arrestive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. arrestive: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Arrestive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. arrestive: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (arrestive)

adjective:  Tending to arrest.
adjective:  Tending to stop or slow a process.
adjective:  (dated) Tending to capture people’s attention.

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