wizened
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
/ˈwɪzənd/
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/ˈwɪzənd/ · /ˈwaɪzənd/
Definition of wizened
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wizen
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verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of wizen
adj
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Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
“"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!"”
“He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.”
“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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Etymology
From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
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