Wean

Definitions: Wean

Wean

Verb

1. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.

2. Detach the affections of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Bible

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Dissuasion

Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate.

Oblivion

Unlearn; efface; , discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of; (turn the attention from); cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones;(forgive).

Crosswords: Wean

Books

• Howard L. Worner : the Wean Collection at the Butler (reference)

• WEAN INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bei Uns in Wean - Live [LIVE] (reference)

• Ja Da Muasst Ma in Wean Net Auf D'welt Kumma Sein (reference)

• Wean Msafer [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Health

But the ultimate goal of treatment is to wean the patient from the machine. (references)

Some patients, particularly those who had severe underlying cardiac disease and prolonged episodes of acute illnesses, may require weeks to months to wean. The doctor considers weaning only when the patient is awake, has good nutrition, and is able to cough and breathe deeply. (references)

Political Economy

Senegal

Policies and actions have yet to back up these declarations, however, and the government still has much work to do to wean the public away from years of "cradle-to-grave" socialist tendencies. (references)

Burma

This situation is further complicated by the fact that the government actively encourages the investment of narcotics profits in the Burmese economy, as part of its strategy to wean the ethnic organizations from heroin production and to offset the shortage of foreign investment. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Vietnam is trying hard to wean the role of the SOCBs as instruments of public policy, and change the process by which financial resources are harnessed and allocated. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "wean": wean a child ♦ wean away from ♦ wean away/tp ♦ wean one's thoughts from. Additional references.

Albanian

tëhuaj (ostracize), largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, estrange, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, whiffle), i pres gjirin. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطم, ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder), ‏قطعه عن عادة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отучвам (break, break smb. of the habit, teach, unteach), отвиквам (break of a habit), отбивам кърмаче. (various references)

Chinese 

断绝 (Weaned, Weaning). (various references)

Czech

odstavit (start off), odnauèit. (various references)

Farsi 

ازپستان گرفتن , ازشیرمادرگرفتن . (various references)

Finnish

vieroittaa (alienate, break somebody of a habit, estrange). (various references)

French

sevrer. (various references)

German

entwöhnen (break of a habit, break smb. from the habit, cure, disaccustom, teach). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκόβω (amputate, cut off, cut out, straggle), απογαλακτίζω. (various references)

Hungarian

elválaszt szopó csecsemõt. (various references)

Indonesian

menyapih. (various references)

Italian

divezzare. (various references)

Korean 

이유하십시요. (various references)

Manx

charbaa (part, part from mother, separate). (various references)

Pig Latin

eanway

Portuguese

separar (branch, break, Buddle, calve, cluster of islands, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnected, discriminating, disembogue, disengage, disesteem, disintegrate, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociation, disunity, divide, divvy, insulate, isolated, keep assembly lines rolling, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink), perder um hábito, largar vum vício, desmamar, desabituar (dishallow), criança (bairn, brat, child, chit, fosterling, infant, kid, kiddy, mini-skirt, person, piccaninny, pickax, romp, youngster), apartar (divide, part, seclude, segregate, select, separate, single, sort), afastar (abate, alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, displace, distract, divergence, diverting, do away with, eliminate, estrangement, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off workers, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, withdraw). (various references)

Romanian

dezvãţa, înţãrca. (various references)

Russian 

отучать, отнимать от груди. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvikavati, odučiti (unlearn), odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, reject, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off). (various references)

Spanish

destetar. (various references)

Swedish

avvänja. (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçirmek (argue smb. out of smth., choke back, choke off, discourage, dissuade, talk smb. out of smth., wean away from), soğutmak (alienate, cool, disincline, estrange, indispose, offput, put off, refrigerate), sütten kesmek, memeden kesmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

відучувати (disuse), відлучати від грудей. (various references)

Welsh

diddyfnu. (various references)

ablactata, ablactatos, ablactatum, ablactatus, ablactaverat, ablactavit, ablactes, ablactetur. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wean": weaned, weaner, weaners, weaning, weanling, weanlings, weans. (additional references)

Words containing "wean": postweaning, preweaning, unweaned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ean, ewa, ewan, ewarn, Ewin, ewon, oean, qean, swean, twean, waaah, Waana, waeb, waen, Wana, wanq, wayang, wea, weab, weaf, Weah, weam, weani, weany, weap, wearn, weas, weav, weaz, wedn, weedn, weene, weeno, wegan, weia, weim, wein, weine, weirn, weman, wenn, weon, weran, Wern, wesan, wiam, wian, wiane, wiena, wisan, woah, woan, woea, woin, wona, woxan, wua, wuam, wuan, wuin, wyan, zean. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: anew, wane.

-1 letter: ane, awe, awn, nae, naw, new, wae, wan, wen.

-2 letters: ae, an, aw, en, na, ne, we.

+1 letter: awned, dawen, dewan, rewan, sewan, waken, waned, wanes, waney, waxen, weans.

+2 letters: answer, atween, awaken, aweing, awoken, dawned, deewan, dewans, enwrap, fawned, fawner, gnawed, gnawer, knawel, lawine, lawmen, pawned, pawnee, pawner, resawn, sawney, seawan, sewans, snawed, tawney, unawed, wahine, wakens, wander, wandle, wangle, wanier, wanned, wanner, wanted, wanter, warden, warned, warner, warren, weaken, weaned, weaner, weapon, weason, whenas, yawned, yawner.

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