"housebreak" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: housebreaks [present, singular, third-person], housebreaking [participle, present], housebroke [past], housebroken [participle, past]
Etymology: From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|house|break}} house + break Head templates: {{en-verb|housebreaks|housebreaking|housebroke|housebroken}} housebreak (third-person singular simple present housebreaks, present participle housebreaking, simple past housebroke, past participle housebroken)
  1. (transitive, US) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle. Tags: US, transitive Synonyms (train an animal): housetrain, toilet-train Translations (train an animal to avoid urinating in the house): szobatisztaságra szoktat (Hungarian), domesticar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-housebreak-en-verb-D2v08pNh Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 58 42 Disambiguation of 'train an animal': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'train an animal to avoid urinating in the house': 94 6
  2. (intransitive, US) To break into a house, typically to burgle it. Tags: US, intransitive
    Sense id: en-housebreak-en-verb-bTeWKDTK Categories (other): American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: housebreaker, housebreaking, subdue, break (english: e.g. a horse), domesticate

Inflected forms

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