housebreak

[hous-breyk] Origin

house·break

[hous-breyk]
verb (used with object), house·broke, house·bro·ken, house·break·ing.
to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.

Origin:
1895–1900; house + break
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Word Origin & History

housebreak
1820, "to break into a house criminally;" sense of "to train a domestic animal to be clean in the house" is from 1900.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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