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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an escape from jail; "the breakout was carefully planned" [syn: break, breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1820 a violent or forceful break from a restraining condition or situation; especially a military attack to break from encirclement II. adjective Date: 1978 being or relating to a sudden or smashing success especially in comparison to previous efforts <a breakout book>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also break-out(breakouts) If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison. High Point prison had the highest number of breakouts of any jail in Britain. = escape N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

break, deliverance, delivery, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, issuance, issue, jailbreak, lam, leak, leakage, liberation, outlet, prisonbreak, release, rescue, riddance, scape, setting-free, slip, vent