Wean a. : To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

Wean a. : Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

Wean n. : A weanling; a young child.

Example:
How do you Wean a kitten to dry food and water?

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Defination from the web:
wean from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... wenen, from Old English wenian to accustom, wean; akin to Old English wunian to be ... weaning them from habits of violence — Geoffrey Carnall> ...