wizen
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwɪzən/
wizen
- wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
- 1864, - Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [https://web.archive.org/web/20061001085037/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7dunb10.txt]
- His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. He was feeble, and his hands were tremulous with a perpetual nervous motion.
- 1890, - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [https://web.archive.org/web/20061211104300/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/dgray10h.htm]
- Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair.
- 1864, - Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [https://web.archive.org/web/20061001085037/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7dunb10.txt]
- Italian: raggrinzito
wizen (wizens, present participle wizening; past and past participle wizened)
- (ambitransitive) To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
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