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ALL meanings of wean

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  • verb with object wean to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food. 1
  • verb with object wean to withdraw (a person, the affections, one's dependency, etc.) from some object, habit, form of enjoyment, or the like: The need to reduce had weaned us from rich desserts. 1
  • transitive verb wean baby: give solids to 1
  • intransitive verb wean baby: start eating solids 1
  • intransitive verb wean stop feeding milk to a baby 1
  • transitive verb wean stop breastfeeding: a baby 1
  • intransitive verb wean feed a baby solids 1
  • intransitive verb wean baby: stop breastfeeding 1
  • transitive verb wean raise, bring up 1
  • transitive verb wean sb off sth: addiction 1
  • noun wean A young child. 1
  • noun wean (Scotland) A small child. 0
  • verb wean (Transitive Verb) To cease giving 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. 0
  • verb wean (Intransitive Verb) To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment. 0
  • verb wean (Transitive Verb) (by extension) To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated. 0
  • verb wean (Intransitive Verb) (by extension) To cease to depend. 0
  • verb wean When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food. 0
  • verb wean If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them. 0
  • verb wean to cause (a child or young mammal) to replace mother's milk by other nourishment 0
  • verb wean to cause to desert former habits, pursuits, etc 0
  • noun wean a child; infant 0
  • verb transitive wean to cause (a child or young animal) to become accustomed gradually to food other than its mother's milk; to cause to give up suckling; now, often, to cause to give up drinking milk from a bottle with a nipple 0
  • verb transitive wean to withdraw (a person) by degrees (from a habit, object of affection, occupation, etc.), as by substituting some other interest 0
  • verb transitive wean to be raised on or brought up with; to become accustomed to 0
  • noun wean a child or baby 0
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