WIZENED

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

(adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; “the old woman’s shriveled skin”; “he looked shriveled and ill”; “a shrunken old man”; “a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws”-W.F.Starkie; “he did well despite his withered arm”; “a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

wizened

simple past tense and past participle of wizen

Adjective

wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)

Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

Source: Wiktionary


Wiz"ened, a.

Definition: Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

WIZEN

Wiz"en, v. i. Etym: [OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian to decay, OHG. wesan to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel. visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L. virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.]

Definition: To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wiz"en, a.

Definition: Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.

Wiz"en, n.

Definition: The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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