wean

🇬🇧 UK/wi:n/🇺🇸 US
GREC2

Definitions

v.

To accustom a baby or young animal to food other than its mother's milk; to cause someone to give up a habit or dependency

使断奶;使戒除(习惯或依赖)

n.

A young child

小孩

🧩 Root Breakdown

Native English
weanother
=wean

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    Mothers wean their babies from breast milk gradually.

  • 2.

    He needed to wean himself off his coffee addiction.

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