Verb (used with object) : The need to reduce had weaned us from rich desserts.    From Dictionary.com. 

Drinking milk beyond the age of weaning is just one of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lactagen: The Big Update] Reference

I would begin weaning him from his buddies now, just like you would a foal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horse Sci | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

I did some research and read some articles about weaning from the pump at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Working and Breastfeeding a Toddler Strocel.com] Reference

Partially weaning is both a way-point on the path to weaning, and a state in and of itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Weaning, Partial Weaning and Mixed Feelings Strocel.com] Reference

Being that a giant percentage of our energy are from coal-fired plants, is that a long-term weaning off process?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics On-Demand] Reference

It won't encourage the kind of investment we're going to need for a long-term weaning ourselves off of fossil fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference

(For the record, I’m pretty much feeling exactly what Amy is.) 5) My confusion around whether or not to begin weaning WonderBaby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticks and Stones | Her Bad Mother] Reference

This is a fascination process where by the voters have kind of weaning out all the people with executive experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2008] Reference

Having gone through three swaddle-addicted babies, you would think I would know something about 'weaning' them wouldn't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Because really, it's such an INTERESTING subject...] Reference

It was a joke in the shop that he had a "weaning" contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Sliprails] Reference

(Enter "Binky Fairies" and prizes and rewards for "weaning" off something they don't need anyway!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Baby Blog - People.com] Reference

Daly said weather stress combines with other stresses animals may encounter, such as weaning, transporting and processing.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Plains Journal: Ag News] Reference

A partial cork should be worn for a few days first for testing and "weaning" a child away from the easier breathing through the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

A review of ''weaning'' studies concludes that babies should be weaned before they reach the currently recommended age of six months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

And I rather dread the idea of weaning them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Mother] Reference

It is not advisable to castrate the young at weaning time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

I have been weaning myself off my cell phone for the last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Hyde: Breaking the Cell Phone Habit] Reference

Nursing mothers are as a rule sterile until after weaning time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Begin weaning your baby off the pacifier after their first birthday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safer sleeping for babies: Less is more] Reference

For the boom to endure, oil states will have to continue weaning themselves from oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARABIAN MIGHT] Reference

The operation and the weaning together may temporarily check the growth of the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The weaning of the child depends much upon the strength and condition of the mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

He tried to divert her mind to pleasant subjects, thereby weaning from sorrowful memories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day of his weaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference

Jockey is also slowly weaning gents from two industry standards: the color white, and the fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guys, Need a Lift?] Reference

These wanderings had been begun with the laudable object of weaning Margaret's heart away from.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Though the child was of tender years he had passed the age of weaning; but he still remained in a cradle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

They assumed, however, continued Soviet largesse and a smooth weaning of the economy from central planning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street Of The Steppes] Reference

Infants cry a great deal during weaning, but a few days of patient perseverance will overcome all difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

But there is reason to think IE9 will help Microsoft make significant headway in weaning customers off IE6, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 finally kill IE6?] Reference

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, maker of Prempro, says weaning offers no added benefit and women can simply stop taking the drug.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's A Woman To Do?] Reference

If the mother suffers considerably from the milk gathering in the breast after weaning the child, withdraw it by taking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Nothing short of weaning vehicles from petroleum will do much about the eye-watering ozone and choking smog that blight our cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keep Holding Your Breath] Reference

NEWSWEEK's Alexandra Gekas spoke by phone with Murkowski about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and weaning the country from foreign oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Conundrum] Reference

Not to mention weaning America off Middle East oil, fixing its schools, bolstering Social Security and declaring war on deficits and debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Reports Morning Update] Reference

In Tokyo, however, the aim of decentralization is to force prefectures to generate their own revenues, weaning them from federal subsidies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Rich] Reference