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wizened adjective [ ˈwɪz(ə)nd ]

• shrivelled or wrinkled with age.
• "a wizened, weather-beaten old man"
Similar: wrinkled, lined, creased, shrivelled (up), withered, weather-beaten, thin, shrunken, gnarled, dried up, worn, wasted, sere,
Origin: early 16th century: past participle of archaic wizen ‘shrivel’, of Germanic origin.


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