Crossword clues for wean
wean
- Remove a dependency
- Make more independent
- Make less dependent
- Make independent (from)
- Gradually make independent (from)
- Gradually break from a habit
- Give up by degrees
- Get the pups on solid food, e.g
- Get the pups on solid food
- Withdraw gradually (from)
- Withdraw from gradually
- Unaccustom to?
- Train to abstain (from)
- Train to abstain
- Teach not to rely on, with "from"
- Take the young off mother's milk
- Switch from suckling
- Switch from a bottle to a cup, say
- Stop supplying with milk
- Stop from suckling
- Start giving formula to, e.g
- Reconcile to a loss
- Reconcile to a deprivation
- Move slowly away from the breasts
- Move off the breast
- Move off the bottle
- Move away from nursing
- Gradually withdraw (from)
- Gradually stop suckling
- Gradually stop nursing
- Gradually remove (from)
- Gradually ease off
- Gradually deprive
- Gradually cut off (from)
- Gradually bring a baby off suckling
- Go from the bottle to the jar
- Get used to solid food
- Get off the bottle?
- Get off the bottle
- Get off milk
- Gently break from a habit
- Free gradually
- Free from dependence on
- Ease off, as from a baby bottle
- Ease gradually (off)
- Do a mother cat's job
- Disaccustom gradually
- Disaccustom (with ''from'')
- Detach slowly (from)
- Detach slowly
- Detach gradually
- Deprive a child of mother's milk
- Cease suckling
- Cause to withdraw
- Bring up with, with "on"
- Break off from mother's milk
- Break a habit, so to speak
- Detach, in a way
- Withdraw, as from a dependency
- Withdraw by degrees
- Remove from a mother's milk
- Break off, as from breast-feeding
- Withdraw gradually from a mother's milk
- Break off from a mother's milk
- Detach gradually, as from a habit
- Cut off (from)
- Gradually withdraw, as from the bottle
- Remove, as from a habit
- With 7-Down, slowly remove from
- Detach from a source of dependence
- Move to solid food
- Withdraw (from), as nursing a child
- Remove gradually from, with "off"
- Gradually remove, as from a mother's milk
- Slowly withdraw (from)
- Gradually remove, as a foal from its mother's milk
- Detach (from)
- Remove gradually, as from dependence
- Withdraw slowly
- Detach gradually (from)
- Detach from a dependency
- Withdraw from dependency
- Disaccustom by degrees
- Estrange, in a way
- Bairn
- Break of a habit
- Withdraw from a habit
- Free from a habit
- Opposite of addict
- Take away gradually
- Reconcile to a severance
- Break from a habit
- Free from dependency
- Gradually deprive the young of its mother's milk
- Gradually deprive of mother's milk
- Get off mother's milk
- Move on from mother's milk
- Break away
- Draw off
- Take (baby) off bottle
- Withdraw, as from a habit
- Cut off gradually
- Take a baby off the bottle
- Detach, as from a habit
- Accustom to solid food, e.g
- Introduce to solid foods
- Help to withdraw
- Detach from dependence
- Cause to withdraw gradually
- Withdraw from nursing
- Withdraw (off)
- Stop nursing gradually
- Stop nursing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wean \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.
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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. -
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 \Wean\, n. A weanling; a young child.
I, being but a yearling wean.
--Mrs.
Browning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"train (an infant or animal) to forego suckling," c.1200, from Old English wenian "to accustom, habituate," from Proto-Germanic *wanjan (cognates: Old Norse venja, Dutch wennen, Old High German giwennan, German gewöhnen "to accustom"), from PIE *won-eyo-, from root *wen- (1) "to desire, strive for." The sense of "accustom a child to not suckling from the breast" in Old English generally was expressed by gewenian or awenian, which has a sense of "unaccustom" (compare German abgewöhnen, entwöhnen "to wean," literally "to unaccustom"). The modern word might be one of these with the prefix worn off, or it might be wenian in a specialized sense of "accustom to a new diet." Figurative extension to any pursuit or habit is from 1520s.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cease giving milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder. 2 (context intransitive English) To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment. 3 (context transitive by extension English) To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated. 4 (context intransitive by extension English) To cease to depend. Etymology 2
n. (context Scotland English) A small child.
WordNet
v. gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk" [syn: ablactate]
detach the affections of
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.