单词	housebroken
释义	housebroken adjective house·​bro·​ken ˈhau̇s-ˌbrō-kən  1 : trained to excretory habits acceptable in indoor living —used of a household pet 2 : made tractable or polite Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web One housebroken joey would watch television in their living room. Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021 The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020 Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018 Sherman, discarded by the Seahawks, arrives with bad-puppy baggage — old, banged-up, a rep for being not quite housebroken. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018 Word History First Known Use 1885, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Medical Definition housebroken adjective house·​bro·​ken -ˌbrō-kən  : trained to excretory habits acceptable in indoor living —used of a household pet housebroken adjective as in trained Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance trained domesticated tamed docile submissive broken tame halterbroken domestic subdued semidomesticated gentle familiar Antonyms & Near Antonyms feral savage untrained wild undomesticated untamed unbroken wildish See More
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