wean
IPA: wˈin
noun
- (Scotland, Ulster) A small child.
verb
- (transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
- (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
- (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
- (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
- (transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity
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Examples of "wean" in Sentences
- How can I wean him off Viagra
- Banks look to wean themselves off ECB.
- The infant is weaned after about 65 days.
- Do make sure to wean the article off the book.
- The whole world needs to wean off hydrocarbons.
- At this time, they are weaned and leave the nest.
- The mothers wean their young at four to five months.
- After the pups are weaned females leave the maternity roost.
- In the 1980s the tea was used to wean cocaine addicts off the drug.
- The island continues to wean off of taxes outside of the VAT system.
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