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• “And what is your name, crispy, old, wizened crone?” “Oh, my name's Helen.” “Hel-- Oh, just Helen.2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (7:01 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7…. From the entry crone
• Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.2017, Andi Watson, Glister. From the entry piskie
• I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck. From the entry ship's biscuit
• The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd, ring-tailed cat.1915 June, Jack London, “The Little Lady of the Big House”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 59, number 1, page 49. From the entry ring-tailed cat
• He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.1907, Jack London, chapter 7, in Before Adam. From the entry wizened
• Reuniting with a murderers’ row of similarly wizened crime-movie veterans, Scorsese hasn’t just returned to reclaim the genre he nearly perfected.2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club…. From the entry murderers' row
• Her wizened face beneath straggling gray hair gathered in a bun, held the kindest, but rheumiest of faded blue eyes.2014 January 20, Rebeccah Apling, chapter 5, in The Gutenberg Connection, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson & Zondervan…. From the entry rheumy
• Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 26. From the entry bearberry
• He’s an old man now, his face wizened and his world limited to a cell in a former convent that serves as one of France’s maximum-security prisons.2026 July 23, Joby Warrick, “We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed”, in The New York Times. From the entry wizened

Meaning of wizen

1. adjective Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
2. verb To wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
3. verb To make wizened.

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How do you use wizen in a sentence?

Wizen is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The title itself refers to Nō masks that represent stock women characters from traditional stories—such as the young “madwoman” or the older woman wizened by age and loss—though it is translated into English simply as Masks.”

What is a short sentence with wizen?

“I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack.”

What does wizen mean?

Wizen means wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.