different between wizened vs drawn

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

1. simple past tense and past participle of wizen

Adjective

wizened (comparative more wizened, superlative most wizened)

1. 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.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drôn, IPA^(key): /d???n/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [d???n]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [d??n]
  • (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [d??n]
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

drawn

1. past participle of draw

Adjective

drawn (comparative more drawn, superlative most drawn)

1. Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
2. Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.

Hyponyms

• overdrawn

Translations

Anagrams

• warn'd

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drau?n/

Verb

drawn

1. Soft mutation of trawn.

Mutation