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house·break
/
ˈhaʊsˌbreɪk
/
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hous
-breyk
]
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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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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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