Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - wean
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Wean
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~ v to gradually stop feeding a baby or young animal on its mother's milk and start giving it ordinary food (Some infants are weaned at six months.) wean sb off sth phr v to make someone gradually stop doing something you disapprove of (I'm still trying to wean my daughter off sugary snacks.) wean sb on sth phr v to be influenced by something from a very early age. (Like many of his generation, he was weaned on the bible.)
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(weans, weaning, weaned) 1. 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... VERB: V n, V n off/from n 2. 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... VERB: V n off/from n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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transitive verb Etymology: Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian to accustom, ~; akin to Old English wunian to be used to — more at wont Date: before 12th century 1. to accustom (as a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing 2. to detach from a source of dependence being ~ed off the medication ~ the bears from human food — Sports Illus.; also to free from a usually unwholesome habit or interest ~ him off his excessive drinking settling his soldiers on the land…, ~ing them from habits of violence — Geoffrey Carnall 3. to accustom to something from an early age — used in the passive especially with on students ~ed on the Internet for research I was ~ed on greasepaint — Helen Hayes the principles upon which he had been ~ed — J. A. Michener ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. v.tr. 1 accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than (esp. its mother's) milk. 2 (often foll. by from, away from) disengage (from a habit etc.) by enforced discontinuance. Etymology: OE wenian accustom f. Gmc: cf. WONT 2. n. Sc. a young child. Etymology: contr. of wee ane little one ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. диал. младенец; маленький ребенок 2. отнимать от груди (ребенка); отлучать от матери (теленка и т. п.) 3. (from, of) отучать (от чего-л.; также wean away) to wean smb. from a habit —- отучить кого-л. от привычки how can we wean him away from his bad companions? —- как нам оторвать его от плохих товарищей? ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I v. 1) отнимать от груди 2) отучать (from, of, away - от); The lamb is too young to be weaned from its mother yet. II noun scot. ребенок ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. wenian "to accustom," from P.Gmc. *wanjanan, from *wanaz "accustomed" (related to wont). The sense of weaning a child from the breast in O.E. was generally expressed by gewenian or awenian, which has a sense of "unaccustom." The prefix subsequently wore off. Figurative extension to any pursuit or habit is from 1526. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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