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wizen

adjective /ˈwɪzən/

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

    His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. He was feeble, and his hands were tremulous with a perpetual nervous motion.

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-West Germanic *wisnōn, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōną, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to consume”). Cognate with Icelandic visna, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (frawisan, “to squander through feasting”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wizen (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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