Wean
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wiːn/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Wean is a verb meaning (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
Meaning
(intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
More Meanings
- (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
- (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
- (transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity
- (Scotland, Mid-Ulster, others) A young child.
- (transitive) To cease giving breast 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.
Example Sentences
The cow has weaned her calf.
The kittens are finally weaning.
He managed to wean himself off heroin.
She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
Word Forms
- weans
- weaning
- weaned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ablactation, subtract, ween, forwean, unmother, milk.
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