Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The breaking or opening of a house with the intent to commit a felony or to steal or rob. See
burglary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See
burglary , and To break a house, underbreak .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.
- verb Present participle of
housebreak .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent
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Examples
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The commands were also helpful in housebreaking and before hitting the dove field.
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The commands were also helpful in housebreaking and before hitting the dove field.
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Just to explain the anti thumb-turn covers, these try to prevent one kind of housebreaking attack where someone sticks a wire through your letterbox and turns the lock from the inside.
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Crimes such as housebreaking, hijacking, violent crime or road rage had affected nearly every one of the 200 businesses surveyed.
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Police commissioner Augustine Chihuri was quoted in the same broadcast reporting a 20 percent drop in crimes such as housebreaking and car theft since the May 19 start of the campaign.
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It was further contributing to the spread of Aids, as it often impaired reasoning and judgement, and led to an increase in crimes such as housebreaking, rape and domestic violence.
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Not unlike the latest fear of Mr. Woodhouse's we learn about, his terror of "housebreaking" on the final page of the novel, "the stain of illegitimacy" in Harriet offers a shadowy subversion to the ordered world that Mr. Knightley's marriage to Emma so presumably validates.
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Similar systems which focused on other crimes such as housebreaking could be developed in the future, he said.
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Dowd said statistics for priority crimes such as housebreaking, theft of motor vehicles, theft out of motor vehicles, robbery and pickpocketing showed a marked decrease of 21,61 percent.
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The result was a rise of "survival crimes" such as housebreaking, theft and hijacking.
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