Wean

(verb.) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; 'she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk'; 'The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle'.

(verb.) detach the affections of.

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• Often she tried, as gently as might be, to wean him from this fanatic worship of the Muses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I tried to wean her fra 't ower and ower agen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Take the colours and odour from the rose, change the sweet nutriment of mother's milk to gall and poison; as easily might you wean Perdita from love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I am _not_ weaned from you, and no human being and no mortal influence _can_ wean me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• O, remain with us--the counsel of holy men will wean you from your erring law, and I will be a sister to you. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Oh, when shall we wean ourselves from the worship of Mammon! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He interested Fulton in his schemes and gradually weaned his thoughts away from art to civil engineering. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I am _not_ weaned from you, and no human being and no mortal influence _can_ wean me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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