Wizened vs Drawn - What's the difference?
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(wizen)
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
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Wizened is a related term of drawn.
As verbs the difference between wizened and drawn
is that wizened is (wizen) while drawn is .As adjectives the difference between wizened and drawn
is that wizened is withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness while drawn is appearing agitated and unwell.wizened
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(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.
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