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单词 prison-breaking
释义

prison /prizˈn/

noun
  1. A public building for the confinement of convicted criminals and accused persons waiting to be tried, a jail
  2. Any place of confinement or situation of intolerable restriction
  3. Custody, imprisonment
transitive verb (poetic)
  1. To shut in prison
  2. To enclose
  3. To restrain
ORIGIN: OFr prisun, from L prensiō, -ōnis, for praehensiō seizure, from praehendere, -hensum to seize

prisˈoner noun

  1. Someone under arrest or confined in prison
  2. A captive, esp in war
  3. Anyone kept under restraint against his or her will

prisˈonment noun (Shakespeare)

Imprisonment, confinement

prisˈonous adjective (Dickens)

prison bars plural noun

  1. The bars of a prison window, door, etc
  2. Whatever confines or restrains
  3. (as sing) prisoners' base

prisˈon-breaker noun

Someone who escapes from prison

prisˈon-breaking noun

prison camp noun

An enclosed guarded camp where prisoners of war or political prisoners are kept

prison crop noun

Hair cut very short

prison door noun

prisoner of conscience see under conscience

prisoner of war noun

A person captured during a war, esp a member of the armed forces, but also including militia, irregular troops and, under certain conditions, civilians

prisoners’ base or prisoner's base noun

A game in which those caught are held as prisoners (appar for prison bars)

prison house noun

A prison or prison building

prison officer noun

The official title of a warder (still so called unofficially) in prison

prison ship noun

prison van noun

A closed vehicle for transporting prisoners

prison visitor noun

Someone who visits prisoners in jail as a voluntary service

prison yard noun

take no prisoners

To be utterly ruthless in accomplishing one's ends

take prisoner

To capture and hold as a prisoner

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