Wean
verb
To stop feeding a baby or animal with its mother's milk and start giving it solid food, or to stop doing something that you do regularly.
The young are weaned at about two months.
Often appears as...
- wean off
- wean on
verb
To make someone stop depending on something they have become used to, like a drug or a bad habit.
I'm trying to wean myself off cigarettes.
Often appears as...
- wean off of
- attempt to wean
verb
To stop feeding a baby or animal with its mother's milk and start giving it solid food, or to stop doing something that you do regularly.
The young are weaned at about two months.
Often appears as...
- wean off
- wean on
verb
To make someone stop depending on something they have become used to, like a drug or a bad habit.
I'm trying to wean myself off cigarettes.
Often appears as...
- wean off of
- attempt to wean
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Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Process
Weaning is often a slow transition rather than an instant change.
Sarah's baby was gradually weaned onto solids over several weeks.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Context
The context of weaning usually involves infants or young animals.
Puppies are usually weaned from their mother's milk at around eight weeks old.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Development
Weaning indicates a step in growth or independence.
Once kittens are weaned, they start exploring more on their own.
Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Process
Weaning is often a slow transition rather than an instant change.
Sarah's baby was gradually weaned onto solids over several weeks.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Context
The context of weaning usually involves infants or young animals.
Puppies are usually weaned from their mother's milk at around eight weeks old.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Development
Weaning indicates a step in growth or independence.
Once kittens are weaned, they start exploring more on their own.
Pro Tip 1/3Gradual Process
Weaning is often a slow transition rather than an instant change.
Sarah's baby was gradually weaned onto solids over several weeks.
Pro Tip 2/3Age Context
The context of weaning usually involves infants or young animals.
Puppies are usually weaned from their mother's milk at around eight weeks old.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Development
Weaning indicates a step in growth or independence.
Once kittens are weaned, they start exploring more on their own.
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Teach every child about...
But we need to get the government to work with all of the fast food purveyors and the restaurant industry, and over a five, six, seven year period wean of us off the extreme amounts of fat, sugar and all the other non-food ingredients. Now, also, back to the sort of big labeling, I said earlier, is an absolute farce and has got to be sorted.
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Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
hours day and night then gradually they move on to move through the milk stage and onto solids and we wean them and as soon as we can have them less dependent on people we do it's important that those foxes don't become habituated to people and we'd like to keep them wild when fox cubs are born they are deaf
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A hilarious celebration...
You know, that the alternatives just aren't quite there yet, and that's not true. There are countries in the world right now that are living mostly on renewable energy and doing just fine. And they tell us that if we do wean ourselves from fossil fuel that we're going to be back in the Stone Age,
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Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the calf is considered weaned and then it should go off on its own at that point so these animals are generally solitary
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Steven Pinker: Human...
affection and age statuses all the way down to weaning, weapons, weather, attempts to control, the color white and a worldview. Also, genetics and neuroscience are increasingly showing that the brain is intricately structured.
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Adorable Baby Animal...
healthy loved and cherished elephants have a similar life expectancy to us in the wild babies aren't weaned until they're around two years old and until then they rely totally on mother's milk
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Finding landmines using...
country trained very much like mine detection dogs pouch rats are pouch rat training begins soon after weaning tethered to a line individuals are clicker trained and received treats when
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How do cigarettes affect...
And quitting is getting easier, thanks to a growing arsenal of tools. Nicotine replacement therapy through gum, skin patches, lozenges, and sprays may help wean smokers off cigarettes.
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Feeding Baby Orphaned...
healthy loved and cherished elephants have a similar life expectancy to us in the wild babies aren't weaned until they're around two years old and until then they rely totally on
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Ferocious Shrews Fight...
weaned from the nipple despite their protests but their mother doesn't abandon them she herself leaves them into the world
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Teach every child about...
But we need to get the government to work with all of the fast food purveyors and the restaurant industry, and over a five, six, seven year period wean of us off the extreme amounts of fat, sugar and all the other non-food ingredients. Now, also, back to the sort of big labeling, I said earlier, is an absolute farce and has got to be sorted.
Video examples
Baby Orphan Fox Rescue PIPE...
hours day and night then gradually they move on to move through the milk stage and onto solids and we wean them and as soon as we can have them less dependent on people we do it's important that those foxes don't become habituated to people and we'd like to keep them wild when fox cubs are born they are deaf
Video examples
A hilarious celebration...
You know, that the alternatives just aren't quite there yet, and that's not true. There are countries in the world right now that are living mostly on renewable energy and doing just fine. And they tell us that if we do wean ourselves from fossil fuel that we're going to be back in the Stone Age,
Video examples
Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the calf is considered weaned and then it should go off on its own at that point so these animals are generally solitary
Video examples
Steven Pinker: Human...
affection and age statuses all the way down to weaning, weapons, weather, attempts to control, the color white and a worldview. Also, genetics and neuroscience are increasingly showing that the brain is intricately structured.
Video examples
Adorable Baby Animal...
healthy loved and cherished elephants have a similar life expectancy to us in the wild babies aren't weaned until they're around two years old and until then they rely totally on mother's milk
Video examples
Finding landmines using...
country trained very much like mine detection dogs pouch rats are pouch rat training begins soon after weaning tethered to a line individuals are clicker trained and received treats when
Video examples
How do cigarettes affect...
And quitting is getting easier, thanks to a growing arsenal of tools. Nicotine replacement therapy through gum, skin patches, lozenges, and sprays may help wean smokers off cigarettes.
Video examples
Feeding Baby Orphaned...
healthy loved and cherished elephants have a similar life expectancy to us in the wild babies aren't weaned until they're around two years old and until then they rely totally on
Video examples
Ferocious Shrews Fight...
weaned from the nipple despite their protests but their mother doesn't abandon them she herself leaves them into the world
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Barack Obama
American President
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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Jennifer Garner
American Actress
I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gone totally bonkers. I didn't even know about dermatologists until I had weaned my first baby, and my skin was so damaged. It was just beyond. And then, I realized, there's a whole doctor who can help you with this.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Alice Englert
Australian Actress
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
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Sydney Pollack
American Director
When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.
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Gary Oldman
English Actor
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Frank Dillane
English Actor
I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.
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Svetlana Alliluyeva
American Celebrity
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
American Author
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
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Barack Obama
American President
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
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Ingrid Newkirk
British Activist
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
Quote examples
Jennifer Garner
American Actress
I've had more acne as an adult than I had as a teenager. After weaning babies, my skin's gone totally bonkers. I didn't even know about dermatologists until I had weaned my first baby, and my skin was so damaged. It was just beyond. And then, I realized, there's a whole doctor who can help you with this.
Quote examples
Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
Quote examples
Alice Englert
Australian Actress
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
Quote examples
Sydney Pollack
American Director
When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.
Quote examples
Gary Oldman
English Actor
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Quote examples
Frank Dillane
English Actor
I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.
Quote examples
Svetlana Alliluyeva
American Celebrity
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
American Author
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
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