- weaning, ablactation - the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal
--1 is a kind of substitution, exchange, commutation
Derived form: verb wean1
- wean, ablactate - gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk; "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
--1 is one way to deprive
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun weaning1
Somebody ----s somebody
- wean - detach the affections of
--2 is one way to estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody