WEANED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaned mean? 

• WEANED (adjective)
  The adjective WEANED has 1 sense:

1. freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk

  Familiarity information: WEANED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEANED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk

Context example:

the just-weaned calf bawled for its mother

Domain category:

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

Antonym:

unweaned (not weaned)

 Context examples 

The stress of travel also extends to piglets, such as when they’re weaned from their mothers and transported to nursery barns.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, they are weaned—and Mrs. Micawber is, at present, my travelling companion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the larger-scale trials, groups of piglets were transported to a nursery barn located 12 hours from where they were weaned to simulate the kinds of stress they’d experience commercially, which can diminish the young animals’ immune system function, appetite and weight gain—something antibiotics helped them recover from.

(Antibiotic Alternative Scores Well in Second Round of Swine Trials, U.S. Department of Agriculture)