verb
- Train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house.
- synonyms: housebreak, house-train
adjective
- Of pets. ( trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place)
- usage: "housebroken pets"; "`house-trained' is chiefly British"
- synonyms: house-trained
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