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Desiccated vs Wizened - What's the difference?

desiccated | wizened |

As verbs the difference between desiccated and wizened

is that desiccated is past tense of desiccate while wizened is past tense of wizen.

As adjectives the difference between desiccated and wizened

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

desiccated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (desiccate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • dried
  • Derived terms

    * desiccated coconut

    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.