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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wean .
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Examples
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'weans'; and the three sisters loaded her with gifts, letters, and messages for all.
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Better no tell the weans, pal, eh?" suggested one, John Campbell from Glasgow, on the other side of Scotland.
Historian Won't Let Scotland's Most Famous Dog Lie James Hookway 2011
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I suspect that these labour half-wits want words like 'separatists' and pictures of weeping grannies and weans over coffins marked UK.
Making their mind up... perhaps. O'Neill 2009
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Now when #3 weans (I do not know when that will be … she is almost one year old and shows no signs of wanting to wean.)
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Taxpayers will save money as the military weans itself from oil, including fuel that costs as much as $400 a gallon by the time it reaches troops on the battlefield.
William S. Becker: The Solar Soldier Is No Fad William S. Becker 2011
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Taxpayers will save money as the military weans itself from oil, including fuel that costs as much as $400 a gallon by the time it reaches troops on the battlefield.
William S. Becker: The Solar Soldier Is No Fad William S. Becker 2011
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That fact will not change unless or until the State of Israel weans itself off the US teat.
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Taxpayers will save money as the military weans itself from oil, including fuel that costs as much as $400 a gallon by the time it reaches troops on the battlefield.
William S. Becker: The Solar Soldier Is No Fad William S. Becker 2011
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I've heard it a. It wisnae they bliddy capitalists gie'd you a the weans, wis it?
'Men Should Weep' marvels Paul Levy 2010
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Obama's grand vision for the battery -- specifically, the advanced batteries that power plug-in hybrid and electric cars and trucks -- is that it can become a new industry that both weans the United States off oil and provides a new manufacturing backbone.
Obama's 'battery story' has yet to put a charge in the American public 2010
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