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HOUSEBROKEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does housebroken mean?
• HOUSEBROKEN (adjective)
The adjective HOUSEBROKEN has 1 sense:
1. (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
Familiarity information: HOUSEBROKEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place
Synonyms:
house-trained; housebroken
Context example:
'house-trained' is chiefly British
Similar:
trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)
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