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wean 音標拼音: [w'in] vt. 使斷奶,使丟棄,使斷念
n. 小兒 使斷奶,使丟棄,使斷念小兒 wean v 1: gradually deprive ( infants and young mammals) of mother' s milk; " she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; " The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle" [ synonym: { wean}, { ablactate}] 2: detach the affections ofWean \ Wean\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Weaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Weaning}.] [ OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gew[" o] hnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. v[ aum] nja, Dan. v[ ae] nne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. [= a] wenian to wean, G. entw[" o] hnen. See { Wont}, a.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother' s milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment. [ 1913 Webster] And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. -- Gen. xxi. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. " Wean them from themselves." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster]
Wean \ Wean\, n. A weanling; a young child. [ 1913 Webster] I, being but a yearling wean. -- Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster] 37 Moby Thesaurus words for " wean": alien, alienate, blunt, break of, bring over, chill, convince, cool, cure, damp, dampen, deflect, deter, disaccustom, disaffect, discourage, disincline, disinterest, distract, disunify, disunite, divert, evangelize, indispose, persuade, proselyte, proselytize, put off, quench, repel, stop, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, wean from, win over |
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