wean
21wean — [[t]win[/t]] v. t. 1) zool. dvl to cause (a child or young animal) to lose the need to suckle; accustom to food other than the mother s milk 2) to withdraw (a person, the affections, etc.) from some object or practice deemed undesirable: to wean… …
22wean — means to be parted from something that is no longer needed. Babies are weaned from their mothers milk, for instance. You often hear wean used wrongly in the almost opposite sense of being a central and continuing part of one s upbringing, as… …
23wean´er — wean1 «ween», transitive verb. 1. to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother s milk. 2. Figurative. to accustom (a person) to do without something; cause to turn away: »He was sent ay to school to wean him from bad… …
24wean — weanedness /wee nid nis, weend /, n. /ween/, v.t. 1. 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. 2. to withdraw (a person, the affections, one s… …
25wean — To implement weaning. [A.S. wenian] * * * wean wēn vt 1) to accustom (as a child) to take food otherwise than by nursing 2) to detach usu. gradually from a cause of dependence or form of treatment * * * (wēn) to discontinue the breast… …
26wean — Synonyms and related words: alien, alienate, blunt, break of, bring over, chill, convince, cool, cure, damp, dampen, deflect, deter, disaccustom, disaffect, discourage, disincline, disinterest, distract, disunify, disunite, divert, evangelize,… …
27wean — Scottish Vernacular Dictionary A child from wee ane , where ane means one No really a different definition still means small child, but ah disagree wi the earlier derivation an until we agree a protocol fur modifyin entries, ah ll add anither one …
28wean — [OE] The etymological notion underlying wean is of ‘becoming accustomed’. The specialization to ‘making accustomed to food other than mother’s milk’ is a secondary development. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wanjan (source also of… …
29wean — wean1 verb accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother s milk. ↘(often wean someone off) make (someone) give up a habit or addiction. ↘(be weaned on) be strongly influenced by (something) from an early age. Origin OE… …
30wean — [wiːn] verb [T] to make a baby stop taking its mother s milk and start to eat solid food • wean sb off sth …
