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Definition of weans in English Turkish dictionary
- wean
- sütten kesmek
- wean
- {f} memeden kesmek
- wean
- vazgeçirmek
- wean
- vazgeçir
- wean
- (Tıp) Sütten (memeden) kesemk
- wean
- {f} soğutmak
- wean
- {f} from/of k.dili. -den vazgeçirmek
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Definition of weans in English English dictionary
- third-person singular of wean
- wean
- To cease to depend
She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
- wean
- To cease giving milk to an offspring
The cow has weaned her calf.
- wean
- to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment
- wean
- gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
- wean
- {v} to deprive of the breast, to take
- wean
- If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them. You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes. to gradually stop feeding a baby or young animal on its mother's milk and start giving it ordinary food wean sb onto sth
- wean
- A weanling; a young child
- wean
- To reduce slowly
- wean
- To accustom a piglet to the loss of its mother's milk Piglets are weaned from the sow at about 3 to 4 weeks of age (see sow, piglet)
- wean
- To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment
- wean
- gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk" detach the affections of
- wean
- When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food. When would be the best time to start weaning my baby? Phil took the labrador home and is weaning him off milk on to meat
- wean
- detach the affections of
- wean
- Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything
- wean
- 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
- wean
- {f} break away from something one is accustomed to (i.e. a habit, nursing, etc.)
- wean
- to accustom a child or young animal to food other than the mother's milk (Morris 1992)