wean

To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.transitive

• The cow has weaned her calf.

To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.; To habituate (someone) to something, especially since childhood.broadlyoftentransitive

• His generation was weaned on 1980's music.

To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.intransitive

• The kittens are finally weaning.

To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.broadlytransitive

• He managed to wean himself off heroin.

To cease to depend.broadlyintransitive

• She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

To raise, to help grow toward maturitybroadlyobsoletetransitive

• For they are friends that help to weane my ſtate, Till men and kingdomes help to ſtrengthen it: […]

A young child.Scotland

• I, being but a yearling wean.
• And there were darker tales in the countryside, of weans stolen, of lassies misguided, of innocent beasts cruelly tortured, and in one and all there came in the name of the wife of the Skerburnfoot.