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• Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.From the entry patch
• It is time to try to wean this patient from ventilation.From the entry ventilation
• She's turned the weans against us!From the entry us
• No weaning cookbook would be complete without a chicken korma recipe!2017 March 2, Zainab Jagot Ahmed, The Flavour-led Weaning Cookbook: Easy recipes & meal plans to wean happy, healthy, adventurous eaters…. From the entry korma
• She'd seen a doctor who’d prescribed Subutex, a drug-replacement treatment designed to wean the user off heroin.2013, Mitch Winehouse, Amy, My Daughter, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry take control
• A maverick is an unbranded calf that has been weaned and shifts for itself.1914 January, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars: A Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry brand
• Puppies are usually immunized with intranasal vaccine before weaning.1997, Karla S. Rugh, Miniature Schnauzers, page 53. From the entry intranasal
• Over the course of a year, the village would be weaned from the technical advice and motivating presence of the animatrice.1994, Katherine A. Dettwyler, “12. Dancing Skeletons”, in Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry animatrice
• You ain’t hardly old enough to be weaned.1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 4, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 48. From the entry sugar tit
• Seventh, this study was conducted when our knowledge of the best practice for the weaning method in tracheostomised patients with prolonged MV had remained undetermined.2015 September 18, “Effect of Tracheostomy on Weaning Parameters in Difficult-to-Wean Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Prospective…. From the entry tracheostomise
• The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every 5 days to suckle it until it is weaned at 7 months.2012, Joseph Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology, page 498. From the entry puggle
• She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."2004, James Campbell, “Boswell and Mrs. Miller”, in Wendy Lesser, editor, The Genius of Language, page 194. From the entry haver
• Eurohucksters will find it difficult to wean the sausage lovers of Liége away from their bursting black Belgian boudins and toward Birmingham's humble bangers.1995, Frank Bradley, International Marketing Strategy, Prentice Hall PTR. From the entry boudin
• However, ministers argue they are delivering the Brexit demanded by the electorate – and say it is time for businesses to wean themselves off cheap migrant labour.2020 February 18, “UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers”, in The Guardian. From the entry deliver
• However, these outsiders spot the first signs of trouble when the babymoon refuses to wane, as they recognize this as an indication that weaning has not yet begun.2014, Iniobong Obong, From Paralympics to Olympics Glory, page 20. From the entry babymoon
• They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29. From the entry lambie
• Yet years of talks, threats and sanctions have failed to halt the program, and officials are at their wits' end on how to wean Iran off its nuclear habit.2010 December 10, Leo Cendrowicz, “Talks on Iran's Nuclear Program Produce ... More Talks”, in Time. From the entry wits' end
• More generally, the historical idea of Little Italy weans its authority from the worlding effects of the colony's infraordinary everyday life, which appears as a fully visualized morphology.2010, William Boelhower, “Figuring Out Little Italy: Down Mott Street and into the City”, in Dennis Barone, Stefano Luconi, editors, Small…. From the entry infraordinary
• Watty's a kind-hearted creature ; and ye may be sure that neither scaith nor scant will be alloo't to come near the wean while it stays in this house.1936, John Galt, William Roughead, The entail: or, The lairds of Grippy, page 314. From the entry scaith
• It was his orgueil that weaned him from the faith and stood henceforth, an inexorable sentinel at the door of his heart, forbidding God to enter.1926, Percy Mansell Jones, Verhaeren. From the entry orgueil

Meaning of wean

1. verb To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
2. verb To habituate (someone) to something, especially since childhood.
3. verb To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.

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How do you use wean in a sentence?

Wean is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The cow has weaned her calf.”

What is a short sentence with wean?

“The kittens are finally weaning.”

What does wean mean?

Wean means to cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.