Thesaurus: wean

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1. 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.
2. a. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
3. n. A weanling; a young child.
4. v. gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
5. v. detach the affections of
6. 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. Gen. xxi. 8. 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. Swift. A weanling; a young child. I, being but a yearling wean. Mrs. Browning.
7. A weanling; a young child.I, being but a yearling wean. Mrs. Browning.
8. v:100 v. gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk v. detach the affections of