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wizened

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wiz·ened  (wznd)
adj.
Withered; wizen.

wizened [wiz-zend]
Adjective
shrivelled, wrinkled, or dried up with age
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Adj.1.wizened - 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 grey hair"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

wizened
adjective wrinkled, lined, worn, withered, dried up, shrivelled, gnarled, shrunken, sere (archaic) << OPPOSITE rounded
Translations

wizened [ˈwɪznd] adjarrugado, marchito
wizened [ˈwɪznd] adjratatiné(e)
wizened [ˈwɪznd] adj [person] → verhutzelt; [fruit, vegetable] → verschrumpelt
wizened [ˈwɪznd] adjraggrinzito/a


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cried Monica, the smaller, the drier, and the more wizened of the pair.
Veiling his clear-cut, lean face in a thin layer of a hard, high cloud, I have seen him, like a wizened robber sheik of the sea, hold up large caravans of ships to the number of three hundred or more at the very gates of the English Channel.
Shortly after, there was a prodigious cackling and gratulation of Chanticleer and all his family, including the wizened chicken, who appeared to understand the matter quite as well as did his sire, his mother, or his aunt.
 
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