Gradually deprive

Usage examples of wean.

He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.

She could get a lift from there to Fort William, or maybe even as far as Glasgow, although I dinna care to think of a young lassie stopping a stranger, with so many droch weans about the place.

I likened the parish to a widow woman with a small family, sitting in her cottage by the fireside, herself spinning with an eident wheel, ettling her best to get them a bit and a brat, and the poor weans all canty about the hearthstane--the little ones at their playocks, and the elder at their tasks--the callans working with hooks and lines to catch them a meal of fish in the morning-- and the lassies working stockings to sell at the next Marymas fair.

Friday to try to wean him off the Lorem Ipsum, and then, of course, there was Landen.

I was accepted into the abbey, just as if I had been an ordinary boy oblate given by his parents to be raised in holy orders, and a village woman was recruited to be my wet nurse until I was of an age for weaning.

Well, it seemed a silly explanation, but he talked as if he had been weaned by an automatic machine, and I was sawney enough to listen to him.

Some of the farmers were loading their carts to go home, when the schools skailed, and all the weans came shouting to the market.

Arm- strong, like Skeat, came from the north country and was said to have been fighting the Scots since he had been weaned.

This was from that tawpy the wife of Thomas Wilson, with her three weans.

It frightened her to think she might lose her status as a Truthsayer and be weaned from the Veritas drug.

Barely weaned, his children already spoke better than most colts half again their age.

A baby chimpanzee starts gathering its own food as it becomes weaned by its mother.

She bore the litter she had been carrying there, weaned the two males and two females and taught them to hunt the small, elusive game.

Jean-Claude seems to understand, without really resenting it, that he is being weaned away from the frank unvarnished style of his amateur days.

I tell you last night I was trembling like a weaned child before yon blast that blew out of Hell, and you yourself were no better when I found you here.