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HOUSEBREAK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does housebreak mean?
• HOUSEBREAK (verb)
The verb HOUSEBREAK has 1 sense:
1. train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house
Familiarity information: HOUSEBREAK used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they housebreak ... he / she / it housebreaks
Past simple: housebreaked
Past participle: housebreaked
-ing form: housebreaking
... he / she / it housebreaks Past simple: housebreaked
Past participle: housebreaked
-ing form: housebreaking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
house-train; housebreak
Hypernyms (to "housebreak" is one way to...):
develop; educate; prepare; train (create by training and teaching)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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