wean

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The hospital managed to wean her off the drug.
醫(yī)院已讓她逐步減少依賴這種藥.
The patch enables smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes very gradually.
這張貼片能使吸煙者很緩慢地把煙戒掉.
He was sent away to school to wean him from bad companions.
送他上學(xué),以便與壞的伙伴斷絕來往.
You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes.
會給你一些含少量尼古丁的藥片幫你戒除煙癮。
It's two years since I've seen Iain. I'm still trying to wean myself off him but it's hard.
我已有兩年沒見過伊恩了。我試圖讓自己不再去想他，可很難做到。

to cause a baby or young animal to stop feeding on its mother's milk and to start eating other food, especially solid food, instead

When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food.
If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think it is bad for them.