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Meanings of housebroken in English

(Of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place.

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Usage of housebroken in English
1
I fully expect to read he's been housebroken in recent weeks.
The Guardian
2
He settled for saying he was housebroken, which made her smile.
Under the dome: a novel
3
Skip is housebroken, but he is like a real little Indian.
Letters to His Children
4
The puppy was only eight weeks old, and wouldn't be housebroken for months.
Impossible
5
As a subject, my private life was not reliably housebroken.
Black Deutschland
6
Next to Hosea Blackford, he was a barely housebroken puppy.
American empire: blood and iron
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And he wondered just how much longer it would be before the thing was housebroken.
Take a Chance on Me
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But you're not housebroken, and I know it.
Impossible
9
A housebroken, Frisbee-playing, come-when-you-call, watchdogging sweetheart named Dodge.
Solomon's oak: a novel
10
That more than anything was responsible for him becoming fully housebroken in just a few short weeks.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
11
He was naturally housebroken, always going outside the cave, except in the beginning when he could not.
The Valley of Horses
12
This is a quickie Rum Tum Tiddy, without any onion, a poor, housebroken version of the original.
The Complete Book of Cheese
13
It looks housebroken. She turned to Sebastian.
Nova
14
The dogs lifted the teenager's spirits, but they weren't housebroken and no one cleaned up after them.
Reuters
15
The writer describes an anecdote about a housebroken dog refusing to relieve itself on New York's concrete sidewalks.
The new yorker
16
As I said, 'well housebroken'!
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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