Wizened vs Wisen - What's the difference?
wizened | wisen |
(wizen)
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
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As verbs the difference between wizened and wisen
is that wizened is past tense of wizen while wisen is to become wiser.As an adjective wizened
is withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.wizened
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- "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!"
- He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.
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.