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detach
English
Etymology
From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /d??tæt?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d??tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
Verb
detach (third-person singular simple present detaches, present participle detaching, simple past and past participle detached)
- (transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
- (transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use.
- (intransitive) To come off something.
Synonyms
- (take apart from): disengage, unfasten; see also Thesaurus:disconnect or Thesaurus:deadhere
- (separate for a special object or use): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (come off something): fall off
Antonyms
- attach
Derived terms
- detachable
- detachment
Translations
Anagrams
- Cath ed, cathed, chated, hectad
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wean
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian (“to accustom; habituate; train; prepare; make fit”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjan? (“to make wont; accustom”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive for; wish; love”). Cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Danish vænne, Swedish vänja, Icelandic venja. Related via PIE to wone, wont, and wonder, and perhaps win.
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?n, IPA(key): /wi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Verb
wean (third-person singular simple present weans, present participle weaning, simple past and past participle weaned)
- (transitive) To cease giving breast 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.
- Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
- (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
- (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Blend of wee +? ane (“one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wi?(?)n/, /?we?(?)n/, [we?n]
Noun
wean (plural weans)
- (Scotland, Ulster) A small child.
Anagrams
- Ewan, Newa, anew, wane
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wæ???n/
Noun
w?an m
- inflection of w?a:
- accusative/genitive/dative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Scots
Etymology
wee +? ane
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [wen], [?w??n]
Noun
wean (plural weans)
- young child
Synonyms
- bairnie
Derived terms
- weanish
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