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单词 home-breaking
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home-breaking
home-breaking n. (a) housebreaking, burglary; (b) the break-up of a household or family; the action of causing such a break-up; home-wrecking.
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1849 Calcutta Rev. 12 528 Murder, robbery, theft, and home-breaking, were at the same time declared to be unbailable offences.
1873 Our Young Folks Dec. 730 I see the heart-break of the home-breaking falling upon, but powerless to spoil, my new content.
1907 Daily Chron. 18 June 3/6 Home-breaking is a more serious offence against society than house-breaking.
1980 L. Auchincloss House of Prophet (1991) 224 I had more deplored him for weakness than condemned him for home breaking.
1995 F. E. Zimring & G. Hawkins Incapacitation (1997) vii. 138 The fear of homebreaking associated with burglary is apparently downplayed.
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