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wean

verb as in detach

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“Since MGP whiskey is [more than] 80 percent of my revenues, it might be silly to wean myself off of that,” Perkins says.

The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby.

Direct payments came into being in 1996, originally as an effort to wean farmers off of direct government subsides altogether.

But it was Carter who first crusaded for the U.S. to wean itself off of its dependence on oil.

“I was trying to wean him off,” Murray said to the detectives.

He would not, however, wean the calf till the winter time, when she was shut up in the yard and fed on hay.

We were always the best of friends, and I even ventured gradually to wean them from cannibalism.

"Madame de la Fayette and I are using every effort to wean him from so dangerous an attachment," she writes to her daughter.

Then you must put your hand to the plough with a will; and the first thing to do is to wean him away from Saul Harrington.

Suffering is not always punitive; it is sometimes disciplinary, designed to wean the good man from his sin.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wean, such as: discourage, halt, remove, and unaccustom.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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