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 Wean v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weaned p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning.]
 1. 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.
    And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.   --Gen. xxi. 8.
 2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.  “Wean them from themselves.”
    The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.   --Swift.

 weaning
      n : the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in
          the diet of a child or young mammal [syn: ablactation]