Gradually removed (from)

Usage examples of weaned.

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.

Midway in life, we are not weaned from affections and pleasures--we still hope.

This will be her fourth litter, and not one lost or a runt weaned yet.