arrest vs suppression

arrest

noun
  • The condition of being stopped, standstill. 

  • The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators. 

  • A device to physically arrest motion. 

  • A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something. 

  • A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse 

  • The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. 

  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest. 

verb
  • To catch the attention of. 

  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. 

  • To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). 

  • To undergo cardiac arrest. 

suppression

noun
  • The state of being suppressed. 

  • The act or instance of suppressing. 

  • A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories. 

  • The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others. 

  • A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia. 

How often have the words arrest and suppression occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )