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simple past and past participle of wizen examples
comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. quotations examples
"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!"
1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Old Mortality
He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
1907, Jack London, chapter 7, in Before Adam
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.
2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, “Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man”, in Time, retrieved 5 October 2013