law-breaking

Questions about law-breaking

What does law-breaking mean?

law-breaking means "(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act".

How many syllables are in law-breaking?

law-breaking has 4 syllables and divides as law--bre-a-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for law-breaking?

Close synonyms include crime, criminal offense, criminal offence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is law-breaking a common word?

law-breaking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.