单词 | weaning |
释义 | weaning (once / 14812 pages) n WORD FAMILY weaning: weanings+/wean: weaned, weaning, weans/weaned: unweaned USAGE EXAMPLESChina’s array of challenges includes weaning the economy off debt-fueled stimulus spending, breaking up state monopolies and cleaning up the environment. Wall Street Journal(Dec 26, 2016) There are signs that we are slowly weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016) Is it because viewers are increasingly weaning themselves from expensive paid television packages that NFL teams have milked so lucratively? Washington Times(Nov 18, 2016) n the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal Syn|Hyper ablactation commutation, exchange, substitution the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help" |
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