Wean

[wean]

To wean yourself from something is to gradually eliminate that thing from your life. You may want to wean yourself from watching too much TV, drinking two pots of coffee every morning, or obsessively reading the celebrity columns.

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To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

Verb
gradually deprive (infants) of mother''s milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"

Verb
detach the affections of

a.
To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

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Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

n.
A weanling; a young child.

Wean

Wean , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning.] [OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gew'94hnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. v'84nja, Dan. v'91nne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. 'bewenian to wean, G. entw'94hnen. See Wont, a.] 1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. "Wean them from themselves." Shak.

The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

Wean

Wean, n. A weanling; a young child.

I, being but a yearling wean.

To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

A weanling; a young child.

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Usage Examples

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.