| 单词 | wizened |
| 释义 | wizened (once / 7715 pages) adj "You're looking quite wizened today," is a something you should never, ever say to your grandmother, no matter how shriveled with age she might be. Think of a caricature of a witch — not your beloved granny. The verb wizen has fallen out of usage, but the past participle, wizened, continues to function as an adjective meaning wrinkled and shrunken with age or disease. You will see lots of elderly, wizened faces at the park feeding the birds and watching the children play. Although you might expect that folks with lined faces have learned a thing or two, there is no etymological connection between wizened and wise. WORD FAMILYwizened USAGE EXAMPLESAs Man examines the menu, I watch a middle-aged woman lower her wizened companion into an orange vinyl chair. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) They toss in some armpit hair and a wizened old bat, just to be safe. And wine. Washington Post(Oct 20, 2016) A photo of a wizened old man looked out across the room from a shelf above the neatly made bed. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) adj lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair Syn shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen lean, thin lacking excess flesh |
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