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weaning
 
Noun weaning has 1 sense
  1. weaning, ablactation - the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
    --1 is a kind of substitution, exchange, commutation
    Derived form: verb wean1
Verb wean has 2 senses
  1. wean, ablactate - gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
    --1 is one way to deprive
    Derived form: noun weaning1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. wean - detach the affections of
    --2 is one way to     estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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