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Wean

Wean Meaning & Definition
Wean Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wean?

[v] gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
[v] detach the affections of

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wean: ablactate

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See Also | alien | alienate | breastfeed | deprive | disaffect | estrange | give suck | lactate | nurse | suck | suckle | wet-nurse

Wean In Webster's Dictionary

\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["o]hnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. v["a]nja, Dan. v[ae]nne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. [=a]wenian to wean, G. entw["o]hnen. 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. --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.
\Wean\, n. A weanling; a young child. I, being but a yearling wean. --Mrs. Browning.

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