Unweaned
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:
The need to reduce had weaned us from rich desserts.
Verb phrases
3.
wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood:
a brilliant student weaned on the classics; suburban kids weaned on rock music.
verb (transitive)
1.
to cause (a child or young mammal) to replace mother’s milk by other nourishment
2.
(usually foll by from) to cause to desert former habits, pursuits, etc
noun
1.
(Scot & Northern English, dialect) a child; infant
wean (wēn)
v. weaned, wean·ing, weans
To deprive permanently of breast milk and begin to nourish with other food.
To accustom the young of a mammal to take nourishment other than by suckling.
To gradually withdraw from a life-support system.
Among the Hebrews children (whom it was customary for the mothers to nurse, Ex. 2:7-9; 1 Sam. 1:23; Cant. 8:1) were not generally weaned till they were three or four years old.
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