wizened
verb/ˈwɪzənd/UK/ˈwɪzənd/US
Etymology
From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
- inherited from *wisnōjaną✻
- inherited from wisnian
- inherited from wisenen
Definitions
simple past and past participle of wizen
Withered
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for wizened. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA