Shrink vs Wizen - What's the difference?
shrink | wizen |
To cause to become smaller.
To become smaller; to contract.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
To cower or flinch.
To draw back; to withdraw.
* Milton
(figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
* Alexander Pope
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
shrinkage; contraction; recoil
(slang, sometimes, pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.
* 1994 , (Green Day),
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 shrink and wizen
is that shrink is to cause to become smaller while wizen is to wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.As a noun shrink
is shrinkage; contraction; recoil.As an adjective wizen is
wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.shrink
English
Verb
- The dryer shrank my sweater.
- This garment will shrink when wet.
- I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
- And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
- Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
- The Libya Hammon shrinks his horn.
- What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
- They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
Synonyms
* (avoid an unwanted task) funk, shirkAntonyms
* (to cause to become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretch * (become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretchNoun
(en noun)- Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink , / That I had less to praise. — Leigh Hunt.
- You need to see a shrink .
- My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
- I went to a shrink , to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing my down.''
Usage notes
* The slang sense was originally pejorative, expressing a distrust of practitioners in the field. It is now not as belittling or trivializing.Synonyms
* head-shrinkerwizen
English
Alternative forms
*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.