wizened

Meanings

Verb

Past of wizen

Adjective

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

Origin

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

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