1. wean - Noun
2. wean - Adjective
3. wean - Verb
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.
Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
A weanling; a young child.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen it broke down, I would break down. I had to wean myself from it just to survive. I had to have interventions. People would say, ‘You've got to do something else.' So that was part of it-being too dependent on this thing I couldn't count on. Suzanne Ciani
I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up. Alice Englert
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. Rumi
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour. Gary Oldman
Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'. Nancy Leigh DeMoss