Definition of Prison-breaking

1. Noun. An escape from jail. "The breakout was carefully planned"

Exact synonyms: Break, Breakout, Gaolbreak, Jailbreak, Prisonbreak
Generic synonyms: Escape, Flight
Derivative terms: Break, Break Out

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prison-breaking

prismatically
prismatick
prismatine
prismatoid
prismatoidal
prismatoids
prismless
prismlike
prismoid
prismoidal
prismoids
prisms
prismy
prison
prison-bound
prison-breaking (current term)
prison bitches
prison camp
prison cell
prison cells
prison chaplain
prison chaser
prison chasers
prison farm
prison gang
prison gangs
prison guard
prison guards
prison house

Literary usage of Prison-breaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"OP PRISON BREAKING BY THE PARTY CONFINED.1 WHERE a party effects his own escape by force, the offence is usually called prison-breaking; and such breach of ..."

2. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"How to prevent prison-breaking. — Facetious Thieves.—Robbery of a Mail Coach.—A Robber's Advice to Travellers. — The Philadelphia Prison Why liberated ..."

3. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"How to prevent prison-breaking Facetious Thieves—Robbery of a Mail Coach.—A Robber's Advice to Travellers. — The Philadelphia Prison Why liberated Prisoners ..."

4. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
""What Force Is necessary to constitute a Prison Breaking. — The next point for consideration is, what shall be said to be a breaking of prison within the ..."

5. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1865)
"was such force used as to constitute the crime of prison-breaking ; or whether it amounted only to an escape; and, the point being reserved, the judges were ..."

6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"... PRISON BREAKING, RESCUE L DEFINITION, 914. П. IK CRIMINAL CASES, 914. 1. Indictment or Information, 914. a. For the Escape Itself, 914. b. ..."

7. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland by John Hay Athole Macdonald (1877)
"prison-breaking. A prisoner confined in a public jail, no matter for ... civil or criminal, commits prison-breaking 1 See Hume i. ..."

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