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Debilitated vs Wizened - What's the difference?

debilitated | wizened | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between debilitated and wizened

is that debilitated is weakened while wizened is withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

As verbs the difference between debilitated and wizened

is that debilitated is past tense of debilitate while wizened is past tense of wizen.

debilitated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Weakened.
  • His debilitated body, the victim of the wasting disease, could no longer support his weight.
  • run down, damaged, in disrepair.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (debilitate)
  • wizened

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wizen)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
  • * 1816 , , Old Mortality , ch. 8:
  • "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!"
  • * 1907 , , Before Adam , ch. 7:
  • He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
  • * 2010 May 13, , " Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man," Time (retrieved 5 Oct 2013):
  • 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.