The Collaborative International Dictionary
housebreak \house"break`\ v. t. to train a pet to live cleanly in a house, especially by training it to defecate and urinate in designated boxes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To train an animal to avoid urinate or defecate in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
WordNet
v. train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house
Usage examples of "housebreak".
She is fully grown, fairly respectful, obedient, housebroken and reasonably intelligent.
He was naturally housebroken, always going outside the cave, except in the beginning when he could not.
They both were fearless, hungry, determined to seek things that lay outside the placidities of the tame housebroken civilization into which they had been born.
Sharp spell of Borstal training to teach you the mysteries of housebreaking, and then a steady life in the Nick.
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