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• n  the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
• v  gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
• v  detach the affections of

• Nicotine-replacement methods, including the patch, pill and gum, work by weaning the smoker off nicotine gradually, usually over a period of weeks or months.
• Over the past decade, the central government has started weaning newspapers off state subsidies.
• He has just written a book called Living Off the Grid, a practical guide to weaning yourself off the electrical milk of modern life.

• ablactation
• wean
• ablactate

News & Articles

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• Father's diet before conception affects offspring's body fat in mice
  ( The Endocrine Society ) When fathers eat a high-fat diet before conception of offspring, the male offspring have increased body weight after weaning and high body fat in midlife despite eating a low-fat diet, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
  June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• A lighter take on steakhouse fare for Dad
  My family has been weaning itself from red meat for years.
  June 14, 2013 - Montgomery Advertiser
• Stocks headed for a bounce
  Stock futures were higher, although continuing unease about when central banks will begin weaning investors off cheap money could make for another volatile session.
  June 12, 2013 - CNN Money

Quotes

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• Warren Buffett in Politico
  Weaning these entities from the public teat will be a political challenge,Buffett predicts. "They won't leave willingly."
• Craig Mundie in International Herald Tribune
  The weaning process inside the company is inevitable,said Mundie, a computer scientist who began his career developing minicomputers and supercomputers before joining Microsoft in 1992.
• Alan Greenspan in FOXNews
  We are gradually ...... weaning ourselves off petroleum. It is slow and in many ways like watching grass grow,Greenspan said, adding that if the shift "happens smoothly, that is the best of all contingencies. ...... But what happens if it...