Weaned vs Submit - What's the difference?
weaned | submit |
(wean)
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.
* Bible, Genesis xxi. 8
To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated.
* Jonathan Swift
To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.
To cease to depend.
(Scotland) A small child.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 92:
* Elizabeth Browning
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
* '>citation
(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between weaned and submit
is that weaned is (wean) while submit is to yield or give way to another.weaned
English
Verb
(head)wean
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) wenian.Verb
(en verb)- The cow has weaned her calf.
- Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned .
- He managed to wean himself off heroin.
- The troubles of age were intended to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
- The kittens are finally weaning .
- She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- I, being but a yearling wean .
Anagrams
* * * ----submit
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Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
- "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.