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The Collaborative International Dictionary
housebreak

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
housebreak

1820, "to break into a house criminally;" see house (n.) + break (v.). Perhaps a back-formation from housebreaker, attested from mid-14c. Sense of "to train a domestic animal to be clean in the house" is from 1881. Related: Housebreaking; housebroken.

Wiktionary
housebreak

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
housebreak

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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