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Definition
to adapt toin various senses, including:
- "She was weaned at 3 months." — a mammal's adaption to the removal of breastmilk (note this is the unqualified sense)
- "I weaned myself from cigarettes." — adapted to the gradual removal of
- "I was weaned on progressive principals" — raised on or adapted to at a very early age.
- Worldwide, most babies are weaned much later, but in the US, fewer than 20% of babies are still nursing when they are six months old.
weaned = adapt to the removal of breastmilk
- She weaned her baby when he was three months old and started him on cow's milk.
- The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle.
- I grew concerned and weaned myself to no more than one drink a day and never two days in a row.
- I was weaned on country music and have loved it ever since.
- She's weaning them from her.Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons
- The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- And she was wean'd,William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- But Iphitos had come there tracking strays, twelve shy mares, with mule colts yet unweaned.Homer -- The Odyssey
- I have a dozen mares at pasture there with mule colts yet unweaned.Homer -- The Odyssey
- A woman with an unweaned baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- The captive raised her face; it was as soft and mild As sculptured marble saint; or slumbering unweaned child; It was so soft and mild, it was so sweet and fair, Pain could not trace a line, or grief a shadow there!Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
weaned = adapted to the removal of breastmilk
weaning = adapting to the removal of breastmilk from diet
wean = help adapt to the gradual removal of
wean'd = adapted to not drinking breastmilk
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unweaned means not and reverses the meaning of weaned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unweaned means not and reverses the meaning of weaned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unweaned means not and reverses the meaning of weaned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
(Editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unweaned means not and reverses the meaning of weaned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
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