housebreak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
To break into a house, typically to burgle it.

noun

/ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/

housebreak housebreaks housebreaking housebroke housebroken

From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense.

housetrain toilet-train housebreaking

housebreaker housebreaking subdue break domesticate

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