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Definition

to adapt to

in 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.

weaned = adapted to the removal of breastmilk

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

weaning = adapting to the removal of breastmilk from diet

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

wean = help adapt to the gradual removal of

And she was wean'd,
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

wean'd = adapted to not drinking breastmilk

But Iphitos had come there tracking strays, twelve shy mares, with mule colts yet unweaned.
Homer -- The Odyssey

(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.)

I have a dozen mares at pasture there with mule colts yet unweaned.
Homer -- The Odyssey

(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.)

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

(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.)

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

(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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