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

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