What does wizened mean?
Wizened means simple past and past participle of wizen.
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/ˈwɪzənd/ · verb
simple past and past participle of wizen.
"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.
Use wizened when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wizened means simple past and past participle of wizen.
Common synonyms include lean, thin, withered, wizen.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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!"
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