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weazened

weazened adjective: withered and wrinkled.

Adjective

weazened (comparative more weazened, superlative most weazened)

  1. Withered and wrinkled.
    • Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not understand.1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 34
    • You are very friendly with these barbarians. Perhaps that is why I was not to be permitted to attend your conversation. Perhaps your little weazened soul is plotting to turn against my father.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 6, page 151, ¶ 6

Forms of weazened

comparativemore weazened
superlativemost weazened

Origin of weazened

A variant of wizened.

Questions about weazened

What does weazened mean?
Weazened means withered and wrinkled.
What part of speech is weazened?
Weazened is an adjective.

Words near weazened in the dictionary

  1. weazand
  2. weazands
  3. weazel
  4. weazels
  5. weazen
  6. weazened
  7. weazens
  8. weazeny
  9. weazle
  10. weazles
  11. weazon

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