housebreaking
Meaning of housebreaking
noun
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.
verb, gerund or present participle- 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
wolves are almost never housebroken
Information about housebreaking
- The plural form of housebreaking is: housebreakings.
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Hyphenation of housebreaking
house-break-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
- housebreaking is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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