adjective
- trained to urinate and defecate in appropriate places indoors or outdoors, not inside the house
Usage: used primarily for pets, especially dogs and cats
Examples
- The puppy isn’t housebroken yet, so we keep him in the kitchen.
- It took three months to get our cat fully housebroken.
- Make sure the dog is housebroken before letting it roam freely indoors.
- The shelter said the rescue dog was already housebroken.
- Housebroken pets are much easier to live with than untrained ones.
- We’re still working on getting our kitten housebroken.