wean

vieraannuttaa

vieroittaa puhekieltä To cease giving milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.

The cow has weaned her calf.

Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

The kittens are finally weaning.

He managed to wean himself off heroin.

The troubles of age were intended (..) to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

(Dalai Lama) "Then, I suggested, “Drink much less vodka.” Instead of that, they traditionally also drink horse milk—" (Oliver) "Wait, hold on, you tried to wean them off vodka by giving them horse mil?" — (Dalai Lama) "Oh yes, and they follow."

She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.

Oh it is not weans it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say weans and lasses.

I, being but a yearling wean.