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Meaning of 'wizened' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Wizened [ a.]
- Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

Meaning of 'wizened' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . wizened [ s]
Meaning (1):
- lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Example in sentence:
  • a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws;
  • a shrunken old man;
  • a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair;
  • he did well despite his withered arm;
  • he looked shriveled and ill;
  • the old woman's shriveled skin

Nearby Words:

wizard wizardly wizardry wizen wizen-faced

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