Usually means: Gradually stop breastfeeding or dependency.
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  1. wean: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wean, wean: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wean: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wean: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wean: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wean, wean: Wordnik
  7. wean: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wean: Wiktionary
  9. wean: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wean: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wean: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Wean, wean: Dictionary.com
  13. wean: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wean: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wean: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wean: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wean: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wean: Rhymezone
  19. Wean: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wean: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wean: Free Dictionary
  22. wean: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wean: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. wean: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. wean: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WEAN: Acronym Finder
  2. wean: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wean: Easton Bible

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wean: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. wean: The Folk File
  3. wean: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
verb:  (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
verb:  (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
verb:  (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
verb:  (transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity
noun:  (Scotland, Mid-Ulster, others) A young child or animal.

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