Defenition of the word wean

• Defenition of the word wean

  • To stop feeding a young animal or child with mother's milk.
  • deprive (infants) of mother's milk
  • detach the affections of
  • gradually deprive (infants) of mother''s milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
  • gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk

Hypernyms for the word wean

• • alien
  • alienate
  • deprive
  • disaffect
  • estrange

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