English
wizened
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈwɪzənd/, /ˈwizənd/
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of wizen
Adjective

wizened

  1. Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
    • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
      "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"
    • 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, ch. 7:
      He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
    • 2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, "[http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1988868_1988866_1989156,00.html Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man]," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):
      In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.
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