housebreak

Meaning

Verb

1. (US, transitive) To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
2. (US, intransitive) To break into a house, typically to burgle it.

Noun

Synonym of housebreaking.

Synonyms

house-train

Translations

روّض

domesticar

εκπαιδεύω

Etymology

From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense.