different between wisened vs wizened
wisened
English
Verb
wisened
- simple past tense and past participle of wisen
Anagrams
- DeWines, desinew, endwise, sinewed, wendies
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wizened
English
Etymology
wizen +? ed.
Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisn?jan. Cognate with Icelandic visna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?z?nd/, /?wiz?nd/
Verb
wizened
- simple past tense and past participle of wizen
Adjective
wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)
- Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
- "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!"
- 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, ch. 7:
- He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
- 2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, "Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):
- 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.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, ch. 8:
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