Wean

Definition:

  • (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
  • (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
  • (n.) A weanling; a young child.

Compare wean with other words:

wean vs. yean

wean vs. wern

mean vs. wean

weal vs. wean

dean vs. wean

ean vs. wean

pean vs. wean

gean vs. wean

jean vs. wean

bean vs. wean

sean vs. wean

weak vs. wean

wan vs. wean

wean vs. wear

lean vs. wean

wean vs. weanedness

wean vs. weanling

suckling vs. wean

wean vs. ween

shoat vs. wean

stunt vs. wean

wane vs. wean

child vs. wean

nourishment vs. wean

mother vs. wean

habituated vs. wean

depend vs. wean

addict vs. wean

quit vs. wean

offspring vs. wean

cease vs. wean

alienate vs. wean

ablactate vs. wean