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wizens

wizens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wizen.

Meaning of wizen

Verb

wizen (third-person singular simple present wizens, present participle wizening, simple past and past participle wizened)

  1. (intransitive) To wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
    • After wizening with cold for an hour, we ran down to the hut for breakfast, rejoicing in having brought with us some portable soup ; and after a second visit to the summit, started at eight, when the day seemed already far advanced, along with the Bleiberg party, for the descent.1864, Josiah Gilbert Holland, G. C. Churchill, “The Morning Panorama”, in The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863, London: Longman et...
  2. (transitive) To make wizened.
    • […] Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience.1981 January 26, Gerald Clarke, “Books: Field Flowers”, in Time

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What is wizens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wizens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wizen.

Words near wizens in the dictionary

  1. wizen
  2. wizened
  3. wizenedest
  4. wizenedness
  5. wizening
  6. wizens
  7. wizier
  8. wiziers
  9. Wizman
  10. wizmode
  11. wizz

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