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house·break·er    Audio Help   [hous-brey-ker] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
2.British.
a.a worker or wrecking company that demolishes houses and buildings, as to make room for new construction.
b.a person who buys doors, paneled walls, etc., from standing houses, to sell as antiques; a person who dismantles a house of its valuable parts before it is torn down.
[Origin: 1275–1325; ME. See house, breaker1]

—Related forms
housebreaking, noun
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house·break·ing    Audio Help   (hous'brā'kĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house.

house'break'er n.
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housebreaker

noun
1. a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house 
2. a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker" [syn: housewrecker] 

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ˈhousebreaker noun
a person who breaks into a house in order to steal
Arabic: لِص مَنازِل
Chinese (Simplified): 侵入他人住宅者
Chinese (Traditional): 侵入他人住宅者
Czech: bytový zloděj
Danish: indbrudstyv
Dutch: inbreker, insluiper
Estonian: murdvaras
Finnish: murtovaras
French: cambrioleur, *-euse
German: der Einbrecher
Greek: διαρρήκτης
Hungarian: betörő
Icelandic: innbrotsþjófur
Indonesian: pembobol rumah
Italian: scassinatore
Japanese: 押込み強盗
Korean: 가택 침입자
Latvian: kramplauzis
Lithuanian: įsilaužėlis
Norwegian: innbruddstyv
Polish: włamywacz
Portuguese (Brazil): ladrão, arrombador
Portuguese (Portugal): ladrão
Romanian: spărgător (de case)
Russian: грабитель-взломщик
Slovak: vlamač, vykrádač bytov, domov
Slovenian: vlomilec
Spanish: ladrón
Swedish: inbrottstjuv
Turkish: ev hırsızı
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