different between extricate vs wean

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extricatus, past participle of extric?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks.t??.ke?t/

Verb

extricate (third-person singular simple present extricates, present participle extricating, simple past and past participle extricated)

1. (transitive) To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.

   I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.

   The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.

2. (rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
   • 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated.

Related terms

• extrication

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “extricate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

extr?c?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of extr?c?

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)

1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.

3. (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
4. (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)

1. (Scotland, Ulster) A small child.

Anagrams

• Ewan, Newa, anew, wane

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ???n/

Noun

w?an m

1. inflection of w?a:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Scots

Etymology

wee +? ane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wen], [?w??n]

Noun

wean (plural weans)

1. young child

Synonyms

• bairnie

Derived terms

• weanish