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effraction|ɛˈfrækʃən|
[a. Fr. effraction, as if ad. L. *effractiōn-em, f. as prec.]
Breaking open (a house); burglary.
1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 277 The dwelling-place where the effraction was perpetrated. 1868Milman St. Paul's iv. 80 A riot, with effraction and murder. 1881J. Payne Villon's Poems Introd. 54 Such efficient instruments of effraction that no bolts or locks could resist them. |