Definitions for wean

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Spelling: [ween]

IPA: /win/

Wean is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in wean (aenw).

Definitions for wean

Verb phrases

1. wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:

verb (used with object)

1. to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
2. to withdraw (a person, the affections, one's dependency, etc.) from some object, habit, form of enjoyment, or the like:

Origin of wean

before 1000; Middle English wenen, Old English wenian; cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Old Norse venja to accustom

Examples for wean

Did she wish to wean the tempestuous Judy from her old friends?

No good can come of his intimacy with Bigot; Amlie, you must wean him from it.

But I might have known that she could not, all at once, wean herself from the trumpery.

Direct payments came into being in 1996, originally as an effort to wean farmers off of direct government subsides altogether.

The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby.

It's a thrawn-fac'd wean that's gotten against the father's will.

I wrote Turner Simpson to send you the pup when it was old enough to wean.

“Since MGP whiskey is [more than] 80 percent of my revenues, it might be silly to wean myself off of that,” Perkins says.

“I was trying to wean him off,” Murray said to the detectives.

But it was Carter who first crusaded for the U.S. to wean itself off of its dependence on oil.