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Liberate vs Wean - What's the difference?

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Liberate is a related term of wean.


In lang=en terms the difference between liberate and wean

is that liberate is to free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage while wean is to cease to depend.

As verbs the difference between liberate and wean

is that liberate is to free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage while wean is to cease giving 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.

As a noun wean is

(scotland) a small child.

liberate

English

Verb

(liberat)
  • To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.
    • to liberate a slave or prisoner
    to liberate the mind from prejudice
    to liberate gases
  • (euphemistic) To steal or abscond with (something).
    • The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Related terms

    * liberation * liberator

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    wean

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) wenian.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cease giving 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.
    • The cow has weaned her calf.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxi. 8
    • Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .
  • To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated.
    • He managed to wean himself off heroin.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The troubles of age were intended to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
  • To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.
    • The kittens are finally weaning .
  • To cease to depend.
    • She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A small child.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 92:
    • Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.
    Oh it is not weans' it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say ' weans and lasses.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • I, being but a yearling wean .

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