housebreaking

Questions about housebreaking

What is another word for housebreaking?

It depends which housebreaking you mean. In the sense “trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent”, the synonyms are break-in, breaking and entering. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of housebreaking?

WordNet records no antonym for housebreaking. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for housebreaking come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of housebreaking

• Full entry for housebreakingAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for housebreakingWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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