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Meanings of housewrecker in English

Spanish
rompehogares

A wrecker of houses.

        rompehogares
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        Examples for "housebreaker"
        Examples for "housebreaker"
        1
        When I observed that a housebreaker was in general very timorous; JOHNSON.
        Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
        2
        They might as well say I was a horse-stealer or a housebreaker.
        The Virginians
        3
        You poor specimen of a housebreaker, suppose you were caught at it!
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        4
        The darkness of the upper hallway offered no obstacle to this familiar housebreaker.
        The Oakdale Affair
        5
        Among them lurked the housebreaker, the highway robber, and the pickpocket.
        As We Are and As We May Be
        Usage of housewrecker in English
        1
        Luckily the intervention of a public-spirited Prefect of Vaucluse proved successful, and they were again rescued from the housewrecker's pick.
        Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 / France and the Net...
        Translations for housewrecker
        Housewrecker through the time