Did you wean the kittens from their mother yet?.    From LearnThat.org. 

And my understanding of wean is a slow removal, not stopping cold turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare] Reference

Tommy’s howling like a fookin wean and it’s fookin dark but Seamus can feel the fookin dirt raining down on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Style?] Reference

Weaning:The definition of the word wean is to withhold mother’s milk from the young of a mammal and substitute other nourishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mothering Twins] Reference

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has talked about the need to "wean".    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

He said investigators may be questioning Murray's claim that he was trying to "wean".    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Island Press] Reference

Retailers since have worked to wean shoppers off discounting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Retailers Hope Outlets Fuel Sales] Reference

The military is going to be difficult to wean from its old ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now, Flexible Force] Reference

"Ultimately, we have to find a way to wean ourselves from this.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Zero-Sum Game] Reference

"Aid must do things that wean people off aid — if not, aid is a failure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Africa’s New Path] Reference

The cash has helped him wean away dozens of top-tier members from the insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of a Shadow] Reference

Given this outlook, market forces won't wean society away from oil, gas and coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRICE IS WRONG] Reference

Let's wean ourselves of fossil fuels and put America on a competitive path to the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wendy Gordon: Enough Already With The Oil Spills!] Reference

The hope is that we can begin a process to wean ourselves off more foreign imports of oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘More Than We’ve Ever Done’] Reference

Now its major aim is to wean Hokkaido from public works, before Tokyo cuts the money flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Rich] Reference

After all, how do you wean workers off what amounts to eight weeks of paid vacation a year?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OFF THE DEEP END] Reference

That worries Washington, which has tried hard to wean the Caucasus away from Moscow's orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Chaos] Reference

She now plans to resume treatment as a private patient, if only to wean herself more slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Age Of Estrogen] Reference

Yet that is precisely what must happen if America is to begin to wean itself from foreign oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candidates Think Flip-Flopping is the Only Way to Win Elections] Reference

The turnaround comes as President Obama is making it a priority to wean America off foreign oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Center of the Earth] Reference

Countless practical difficulties would arise in trying to wean the U.S. economy from today's fossil fuels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selling the Green Economy] Reference

And on Pakistan, Obama has long called for greater humanitarian aid to help that country wean itself from extremism.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Ich bin ein Commander’] Reference

A year later came the Enhanced Energy Security Act, which aimed to wean the U.S. off of its addiction to foreign oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Eco-Business Subsidies You Should Know About] Reference

That's a concern; after all, it was the maquiladora sector that helped wean Mexico off its historical dependence on oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEXICAN PARADOX] Reference

And Kuchma's remarks put the stamp of failure on recent U.S. efforts to wean Ukraine of its ambitions to join the nuclear club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nukes Spell R-E-S-P-E-C-T] Reference

Jolted by the oil shocks of the 1970s, Brazilians scoured the map for hidden reserves, hoping to wean the nation off imported oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nimble Monopoly] Reference

Of course America, along with the developed world, needs to wean itself off oil and curb its gluttonous waste of natural resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back Talk: Exploring Iraq’s War Marriages] Reference

The patch, which must be prescribed by a doctor, comes in several dosages; wearers wean themselves over the course of about 12 weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'd Toddle A Mile For A Camel] Reference

Reform should address the systemic risk they pose and should wean our mortgage finance system from its dependence on these institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housing policy must be set on sustainable basis] Reference

Faced by the scale of this human, economic and ecological catastrophe, can the US? and the rest of the world? begin to wean itself off oil?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A deadly addiction: figures confirm BP well blowout is history's biggest accidental marine spill] Reference