housebreaking
Speech parts
1. housebreaking - Noun
2. housebreaking - Verb
Meaning
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, under Break.
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The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
He ordered that the sentences excluding the murder and housebreaking run concurrently.
FERNDALE – The suspects are expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrates’ Court to face charges of possession of housebreaking implements.
If you can, run to the street and limit the robbery to a hijacking and not a housebreaking as well.
"Thanks to a great bit of collaboritive work by local officers in Prestonpans and colleagues from Road Policing, an arrest has been made for a recent housebreaking in Prestonpans and the stolen vehicle has been recovered.
Preliminary investigations showed that three of the youths were also believed to be involved in a separate case of housebreaking reported along Choa Chu Kang Avenue 7, said the police.