Wizened \Wiz"ened\, a.
Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened
old man.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wizened
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, wizen]
WordNet (r) 2.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "wizened":
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied,
attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky,
corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated,
doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf,
dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic,
marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified,
mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched,
parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy,
ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed,
runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile,
sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal,
squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried,
sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery,
underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted,
wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
wizen, wizen-faced, wraithlike, wrinkled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen
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