wizened

CEFRC2

/ˈwɪzənd/

adjective · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Having a small, dry, wrinkled appearance, usually from age.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

Examples

  • The old man had a wizened face.

  • "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!"

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈwaɪzənd/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meaning

  1. simple past and past participle of wizen

More examples

In context

  • 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.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The blank old man had deep wrinkles on his face after many years of hard work.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

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