Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Withered; wizen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wizen . - adjective
withered ;lean andwrinkled byshrinkage as fromage orillness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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Examples
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The old woman grinned back at Leia, her expression wizened by years.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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The old woman grinned back at Leia, her expression wizened by years.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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And we threw out the governor and replaced him with this kind of wizened homunculus who used to play robots.
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And we threw out the governor and replaced him with this kind of wizened homunculus who used to play robots.
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They're limp an 'wizened 'long to the fust of the spring.
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You might want to investigate the difference between 'wizened' and 'wise'.
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These wizened men, who have seen more of life than I wish to imagine, become silent guardians.
Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world Ben Colclough 2011
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Portray the wizened and wise Jedi master with a Yoda rubber mask or Obi-Wan Kenobi outfit.
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Once the client has successfully relieved her- or himself of this burden, the office manager goes in for the kill usually a thick layer of sugary rebuke only a wizened mother of three can muster: "Now let's start over without all the foul language so I can properly understand you."
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These wizened men, who have seen more of life than I wish to imagine, become silent guardians.
Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world Ben Colclough 2011
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