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Meaning wean meaning

What does wean mean?
Definitions in simple English

wean Verb

— If you wean a baby, you stop giving it breast milk. Babies are weaned when they reach a certain age.

wean

— verb gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle — verb detach the affections of

Synonyms wean synonyms

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wean English » English

ablactate wee ’un withdraw weaning unteach tear off straggle stop snip off snap off snap separate rip off pull apart pluck pinch pick harvest halt give up gather estrange divorce disengage detoxify detox depart cut off cease be weaned alienate alien ablactation

Topics wean topics

What do people use wean to talk about?
Person Life Stage of life Baby

Care for a baby

Conjugation wean conjugation

How do you conjugate wean?

wean · verb

Examples wean examples

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Simple sentences

He tried to wean his son from his bad habit.

Movie subtitles

You ought to wean her. She's old enough.
Think what cleverness it would take. to wean him from his madness.
They wean their kids on it.
Well, I know the best thing is to wean her from her fantasy.
If we put her on a respirator, we may not be able to wean her off.
It is precisely by allowing Graham to continue his scientific studies in here that I've been able to wean him from morbid science towards a more responsible and humane application of his interests.
Wean you away from that.
Mr Renton, I understand that you have entered into a programme of rehabilitation in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin.
Then I have some ideas on how to wean him off the stick.
We must be brave and wean them off the Osnard teat, my boy.
I've been looking for one with a wean's car seat.
What am I supposed to tell the wean in the morning?
You've upset the wean.
We're just gonna stay in with the wean for the night.
What are you trying to do, wean this thing?
Miss Carmen Sternwood. You ought to wean her.
Well, we'll have to wean him to a bottle.
What does wean mean?
But what does wean mean?
Americans love television. They wean their kids on it.
But I didn't wean her till 14 months.
Mr. Renton, I understand that you have entered into a program of rehabilitation in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin.
I'll start them off with a nice friendly wave, and then I'll slowly wean them down to a nod.
We should probably try to wean him off humans.
You ought to wean her.
I will wean from sleeping.
You gotta wean.
Gotta wean.
Must wean.
We have a substitute that can help wean you off heroin.
Congress has to wean itself from the expensive high of enacting laws which appear tough on crime but are ineffective.
We're trying to wean him off the stuff, not get him hooked on it.
Alright. can you wean him off it?
We'll set her up on a program, they'll wean her onto the methadone.
Then--then we'll wean him out of the coma-- will he be okay?

News and current affairs

Just as it is next to impossible to take a critically ill patient off life-support treatment, it is equally difficult to wean post-bubble economies from their now steady dose of liquidity injections and deficit spending.
Another priority is to wean people from dependence on government.
First, China will begin to wean itself from the manufacturing model that has underpinned export- and investment-led growth.
Although it is beginning to wean companies off the practice, Russia does indeed sell energy cheaply to people and industries that became addicted to subsidized energy under socialism.
Moreover, continuing investment in real estate makes it all the more difficult to wean the economy off its real-estate addiction, and the real-estate market off its addiction to government support.
China's problem is not the US, but how to wean the world's largest, or second largest economy (depending on which data are used) off its deeply entrenched dependence on coal.
The problem of how to wean these countries off this addiction seems to be insurmountable.
So what more could the German government do to wean the Germans off their abstemious habits?
Xi's visit to Seoul was another bold step in China's systematic efforts to wean South Korea from its commitment to the US-led international economic order.

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