wean
verb (used with object)
to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
will wean
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future tenseof wean.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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To date, the United Kingdom has said it will wean itself from Russian oil imports by year’s end.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
I include it here hoping it will wean you off your aversion to flutes and Renaissance-ish ladies’ chorales, but mainly to seduce you towards better means than mall stampedes to remedy a holiday-weekend tryptophan hangover.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2014
Her last cubs, Venus and Serena, are still nursing, but if Baez becomes pregnant during this estrus, she will wean them soon.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2011
She will wean her child and take him.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
But diet, bathing, etc. etc., followed uniformly, will wean him from his folly—so fear not.
From Roughing It, Part 7. by Mark Twain
