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housebreaking noun [ ˈhaʊsbreɪkɪŋ ]

• the action of breaking into a building, especially in daytime, to commit a crime. In 1968 it was replaced as a statutory crime (in England and Wales only) by burglary.

housebreak verb

• train (a pet) to urinate and defecate outside the house or only in a special place; house-train.
• "an elephant is exceedingly difficult to housebreak"


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