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Word entry · 7 letters

wizened

Best crossword clue

"Wrinkled with age"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɪzənd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted deeinwzStarts with WEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
1W2I3Z4E5N6E7D

Definitions

  1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

Word origin

From wizen + -ed.

Used in a sentence

  • "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!"
  • He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
  • 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.

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