Weaned
[wi:nd]
Definition
(adj.) freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk; 'the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Wean
Editor: Rebekah
Examples
- For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He interested Fulton in his schemes and gradually weaned his thoughts away from art to civil engineering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I am _not_ weaned from you, and no human being and no mortal influence _can_ wean me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Rebekah