wean
断奶,断乳,断绝关系,断绝
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Definitions
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- : to accustom to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- : to withdraw from some object, habit, form of enjoyment, or the like: The need to reduce had weaned us from rich desserts.
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- : wean on, to accustom to; to familiarize with from, or as if from, childhood: a brilliant student weaned on the classics; suburban kids weaned on rock music.
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Some reports even tie psychosis to the withdrawal episodes experienced while weaning off of phenibut.
In the meantime, San Diego is spending billions to diversify its local water supply in an effort to wean itself off the Colorado River.
It’s good that oil demand is waning as the world should be in a rush to wean itself off of fossil fuels.
A government push in 1970 to wean India off costly imports and manufacture cheaper medicines for its own citizens led to legal reforms that kickstarted growth of India’s generics industry.
Hyena moms nurse their cubs for around 14 months and help them get enough food even after they’re weaned.
“Since MGP whiskey is [more than] 80 percent of my revenues, it might be silly to wean myself off of that,” Perkins says.
The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby.
Direct payments came into being in 1996, originally as an effort to wean farmers off of direct government subsides altogether.
But it was Carter who first crusaded for the U.S. to wean itself off of its dependence on oil.
“I was trying to wean him off,” Murray said to the detectives.
He would not, however, wean the calf till the winter time, when she was shut up in the yard and fed on hay.
We were always the best of friends, and I even ventured gradually to wean them from cannibalism.
"Madame de la Fayette and I are using every effort to wean him from so dangerous an attachment," she writes to her daughter.
Then you must put your hand to the plough with a will; and the first thing to do is to wean him away from Saul Harrington.
Suffering is not always punitive; it is sometimes disciplinary, designed to wean the good man from his sin.