Wizened vs Emaciated - What's the difference?
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(wizen)
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
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Thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.
(emaciate)
As verbs the difference between wizened and emaciated
is that wizened is past tense of wizen while emaciated is past tense of emaciate.As adjectives the difference between wizened and emaciated
is that wizened is withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness while emaciated is thin or haggard, especially from hunger or disease.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.
emaciated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The emaciated prisoners in the death camps were weak and sickly.