WEAN

[verb] [T] - to cause (a baby or young animal) to stop feeding on its mother's milk and to start eating other food, esp. solid food, insteadThe studies were carried out on calves that had been weaned at 5 weeks of age.She started to wean her baby when it was about six months old.(figurative) As a child she was weaned on (= grew and developed being strongly influenced by) TV soap operas and rock music.To wean someone off/from a habit is to gradually cause them to stop it.It's difficult to wean an addict off cocaine once they're hooked.The whole scheme is intended to wean people off welfare dependency and to discourage the spread of single-parent welfare mothers. [T]I'm trying to wean myself off fatty foods.