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  • verb
    weans; weaned; weaning
    [+ obj] :to start feeding (a child or young animal) food other than its mother's milk
    The calves are weaned at an early age.
    wean from/off
    [phrasal verb]
    wean (someone or something) from/off (something) :to make (someone or something) stop doing or using (something)
    efforts to wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil
    I'm gradually weaning myself off cigarettes.
    wean on
    [phrasal verb]
    wean (someone) on (something) :to have (someone) see, use, or experience (something) often especially from a young age - usually used as (be) weaned on
    a generation of kids weaned on television [=a generation of kids who have watched television a lot since they were very young]
    Although born in the 1970s, the singer says she was weaned on the music of the 1940s.