Clues for the word "WEAN"
We've had 120 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 267 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on April 12, 2026.
Definition of wean
- a. - To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
- a. - Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
- n. - A weanling; a young child.
Referring Clues
- Withdraw by degrees
- Withdraw gradually
- Break off from a mother's milk
- Remove from a mother's milk
- Break off
- Detach gradually
- Cut off (from)
- Remove, as from a habit
- Gradually withdraw
- Withdraw (from)
- Move to solid food
- Detach from the bottle
- Teach to abstain
- Make less dependent
- Cut off gradually
- Start giving formula to, e.g.
- Go from the bottle to the jar
- Accustom to solid food
- Remove gradually
- Introduce to solid foods
- Train to abstain
- Withdraw from nursing
- Gradually remove
- With 7-Down, slowly remove from
- Detach from a source of dependence
- Stop from suckling
- Gradually make independent (from)
- Help to withdraw
- Cause to withdraw
- Detach (from)
- Detach from dependence
- Detach, as from a habit
- Accustom to solid food, e.g.
- Disaccustom (with "from")
- Unaccustom
- Free from dependence on
- Remove a dependency
- Get the pups on solid food
- Give up by degrees
- Remove gradually from, with "off"
- Make independent (from)
- Gradually break from a habit
- Teach not to rely on, with "from"
- Withdraw, as from a habit
- Cause to withdraw gradually
- Break off from mother's milk
- Slowly withdraw
- Disaccustom (with "from")
- Stop supplying with milk
- Make more independent
- Slowly withdrawn
- Move off of milk
- Slowly withdraw (from)
- Withdraw from a habit
- Break a habit, maybe
- Get off the bottle?
- Break of a habit
- Make independent, maybe
- Reduce a dependence
- Move slowly away from the breasts
- Cease suckling
- Withdraw
- Deprive
- Move off the breast
- Switch from a bottle to a cup, say
- Get the pups on solid food, e.g.
- Gradually remove, as a foal from its mother's milk
- Break a habit
- Gradually withdraw (from)
- Ablactate
- Remove gradually, as from dependence
- Withdraw from gradually
- Withdraw gradually from a mother's milk
- Bring up with, with "on"
- Detach gradually (from)
- Withdraw slowly
- Ease off, as from a baby bottle
- Deprive a child of mother's milk
- Detach gradually, as from a habit
- Break a habit, so to speak
- Stop nursing gradually
- Gradually remove, as from a mother's milk
- Gradually withdraw, as from the bottle
- Detach slowly
- Introduce to solid food
- Gradually detach from a baby's bottle
- Take a baby off the bottle
- Withdraw, as from a dependency
- Withdraw (off)
- Withdraw from the bottle
- Gradually remove from, as a baby from a bottle
- Disaccustom by degrees
- Gradually deprive of mother's milk
- Gradually bring a baby off suckling
- Bring a baby off mother's milk
- Accustom to doing without Guardian article
- Bring baby off mother's milk
- Accustom to abstain from a former habit
- Take the young off mother's milk
- Gently break from a habit
- Train to abstain (from)
- Take (baby) off bottle
- Gradually remove (from)
- Move away from nursing
- Disaccustom gradually
- Detach
- Gradually stop nursing
- Withdraw gradually (from)
- Get on to a new system of diet
- Gradually cut off (from)
- Gradually ease off
- Detach slowly (from)
- Move off the bottle
- Transition off mother's milk
- Transition off breast milk
- Ease off of breast milk, say
- Move to solid food, say
- Disaccustom
- Introduce to solid food, say
- Start on solids
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - April 12, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 04, 2026
- New York Times - March 28, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 10, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 04, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - December 07, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 14, 2025
- LA Times - November 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 12, 2025
- Daily American - August 13, 2025
- New York Times - August 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - June 20, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 29, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 22, 2025
- New York Times - April 16, 2025
- Daily American - March 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 04, 2025
- LA Times - January 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 22, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 05, 2024
- Daily American - September 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 19, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 26, 2024
- Daily American - April 22, 2024
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