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housebreaker

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abeeehkorrsuStarts with HEnds with R0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house

Word origin

From house + breaker.

Used in a sentence

  • [H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
  • The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker, but it was the vicar's wife in a nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.
  • A serial housebreaker who is believed to have stolen from several homes in Ang Mo Kio last month was nabbed on Tuesday.

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