Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To think; suppose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Doubt; conjecture.
- To be of opinion; have the notion; think; imagine; suppose.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To think; to imagine; to fancy.
Etymologies
- Middle English wenen, from Old English wēnan; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.”
“I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.”
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“Have to ween them off of it to get them to realize that nature has its own time.”
“Until we educate young people on the wisdom of sensible money management, and ween them from the idea that they are entitled to freebies, these problems will never end.”
“So you can't ween yourself off of caffeine, someone else has to do it for you, and they have to do it without you knowing that they're doing it.”
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“I would look to develop options for american citizens and possibly ween the populace off of the entitlement programs over the course of several decades.”
“They are great to ween a young hunter into the sport and it will keep older hunters in the wood longer. (they have paid their dues and deserve that right).”
“And I can show this to a friend that always buys bottled water to ween him off it.”
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“Take control of your lives and ween yourselves from the Government's nipple!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ween’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 95 more...
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Band or Brand?
Band names that are also common words or phrases.
genesis, who, beatles, journey, germs, sublime, doors, cars, nirvana, bangles, tool, pixies and 192 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 82 more...
bilby "But at the last, as a man may not ever endure, Sir Launcelot waxed so faint of fighting and travailing, and was so weary of his great deeds, but he might not lift up his arms for to give one stroke, so that he weened never to have borne arms; and then they all took and led him away into a forest, and there made him to alight and to rest him."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'. Sep 12, 2009
minerva ...Miss Howe has reason to apprehend vengeance from me, I ween.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Jan 4, 2008