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housebreak.

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

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/
  1. To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

    US · transitive
  2. To break into a house, typically to burgle it.

    US · intransitive
Where this word comes from

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

noun/ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/
  1. Synonym of housebreaking.

Where this word comes from

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

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