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  • 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.  (source)
    weaning = adapting to the removal of breastmilk from diet
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  • They were weaned and fat, shaking their bellies and beating their tails.†  (source)
    weaned = adapted
  • 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.  (source)
    wean = help adapt to the gradual removal of
  • The doctor says I have to start weaning myself back on food.†  (source)
    weaning = adapting
  • 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!†  (source)
    unweaned = still needing
    standard prefix: 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.
  • She'll farrow at least ten pigs, spring and fall— if you breed her fresh again just three days after she weans.†  (source)
    weans = adapts
  • And she was wean'd,  (source)
    wean'd = adapted to not drinking breastmilk
  • Even Aegon did no conquering until after he was weaned.†  (source)
    weaned = adapted
  • Maybe the goal isn't to kill all of us, just wean us down to a manageable number.†  (source)
    wean = adapt
  • Since quality of flavor would be meaningless, supermarkets would carry only basic grains such as rice, cornmeal, soybeans and flour; possibly also some ungraded meat, milk for weaning infants and vitamin and mineral supplements to make up deficiencies.†  (source)
    weaning = adapting
  • I have a dozen mares at pasture there with mule colts yet unweaned.†  (source)
    unweaned = still needing
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