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Wizened

//ˈwɪzənd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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!""

Adjective
  1. 1
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of wizen form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.

Etymology 2

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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