Dizen vs Wizen - What's the difference?
dizen | wizen |
To dress with flax for spinning.
To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
* 1864 , - Henry Dunbar by [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7dunb10.txt]
* 1890 , - by Oscar Wilde [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/dgray10h.htm]
As verbs the difference between dizen and wizen
is that dizen is to dress with flax for spinning while wizen is to wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.As an adjective wizen is
wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.dizen
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*Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* ----wizen
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*wizzenAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen , his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair.