Wizen \Wiz"en\, a.
Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
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A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. --Dickens.
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Wizen \Wiz"en\, n.
The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Wizen \Wiz"en\, v. i. [OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian
to decay, OHG. wesan?n to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel.
visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L.
virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.]
To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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wizen
adj : lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the
old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man
with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he
did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little
man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled,
shrunken, withered, wizened]
WordNet (r) 2.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "wizen":
Sanforize, age, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, blot, brush,
burn, cheat the undertaker, consume, cure, decline, decrease,
dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, diminish, dodder, drain, droop,
dry, dry up, dwindle, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate,
fade, fade away, fail, fire, flag, get along, get on, grow old,
insolate, kiln, languish, macerate, mummify, mummy, parch, pine,
preshrink, reduce, rub, scorch, sear, shake, shrink, shrivel, sink,
smoke, soak up, sponge, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, torrefy, totter,
towel, turn gray, turn white, wane, waste, waste away, weazen,
welter, wilt, wipe, wither, wrinkle
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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