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house-broken

British  

adjective

  1. another word for house-trained See house-trained

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When Jim and Linda Crismer finally met Mazzie outside a hotel in Amarillo, Texas, almost two months later, Mazzie was house-broken but still scared.

From Seattle Times

Decius identified himself as a conservative, but he saved much of his criticism for “house-broken conservatives,” who warned of the perils of progressivism while doing nothing in particular to stop it.

From The New Yorker

He’s so fully house-broken the door on his cage doesn’t even need to be closed, let alone locked.

From Time

Now there were coming children of the older Brothers, and these, having learned the ways of the place from their fathers, were already house-broken, as we said, when they came.

From Project Gutenberg

A newspaper advertisement describing a certain dog which was offered for sale says "He is thoroughly house-broken, will eat anything, is very fond of children."

From Project Gutenberg