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housebreak

/ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/

housebreak verb: to train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.

Verb

housebreak (third-person singular simple present housebreaks, present participle housebreaking, simple past housebroke, past participle housebroken)

  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

housebreak (plural housebreaks)

  1. Synonym of housebreaking.
    Synonyms:
    housebreaking

housebreak meaning in Bengali and Kannada

housebreak in Bengali

কেবল লিটার বক্স

housebreak in Kannada

ಪಳಗಿಸು

Synonyms of housebreak

Forms of housebreak

Verb
third-person singular presenthousebreaks
present participlehousebreaking
pasthousebroke
past participlehousebroken
Noun
pluralhousebreaks

Origin of housebreak

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

Questions about housebreak

What does housebreak mean?
Housebreak means to train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
What is housebreak in Bengali?
Housebreak in Bengali is কেবল লিটার বক্স. See Housebreak meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is housebreak?
Housebreak can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce housebreak?
Housebreak is pronounced /ˈhaʊs.bɹeɪk/.
What is the past tense of housebreak?
The past tense of housebreak is housebroke.

Words near housebreak in the dictionary

  1. housebotes
  2. housebound
  3. houseboundness
  4. houseboy
  5. houseboys
  6. housebreak
  7. housebreaker
  8. housebreakers
  9. housebreaking
  10. housebreakings
  11. housebreaks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: housebreak (page history and authors); housebreak (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); housebreak (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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