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▸ 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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ablactation,
ween,
forwean,
wean off,
ablactate,
unmother,
milk,
dry off,
debreast,
unbreed,
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