wean sb off sth
US also wean sb from sth— phrasal verb with wean uk/wiːn/us/wiːn/verb [ T ]
to make someone gradually stop using something that is bad for them:
It's difficult to wean addicts off cocaine once they're hooked.
The whole scheme is intended to wean people off welfare dependency.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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