wizened
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wizened
- /ˈwɪzənd/ UK
- /ˈwɪzənd/ US
- /ˈwaɪzənd/ US, uncommon
Rhymes with -ɪzənd
Where it comes from
From wizen + -ed.
Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
verb
- simple past and past participle of wizen
adjective more wizened · most wizened
- 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!"
