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Wizen   /wˈaɪzən/   Listen
Wizen

adjective
1.
Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.  Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizened.  "He looked shriveled and ill" , "A shrunken old man" , "A lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws" , "He did well despite his withered arm" , "A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"






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"Wizen" Quotes from Famous Books



... appearance did not. escape the eye of his landlady. She was a small, dried-up little woman, with a wrinkled yellowish face. She seemed parched up and brittle. Whenever she moved she crackled, and one went in constant dread of seeing a wizen-looking limb break off short like the branch of some dead tree. When she spoke it was in a voice hard and shrill, not unlike the chirp of a cricket. When—as was frequently the case—she clothed her attenuated ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume



Words linked to "Wizen" :   lean, thin



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