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
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
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
to accustom a child or young animal to food other than the mother's milk (Morris 1992)
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[ 'wEn ] (transitive verb.) before 12th century. Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian to accustom, wean; akin to Old English wunian to be used to; more at WONT.