Crossword clues for weaned
weaned
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wean)
WordNet
adj. freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk; "the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother" [ant: unweaned]
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.