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Meanings of housewrecker in English

Spanish
rompehogares

A wrecker of houses.

rompehogares
Synonyms
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