verb
definition
To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
adjective
definition
Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
Examples of wizened in a Sentence
He shook his head, his gaze taking on a wizened look.
Instead we looked on at a wizened old man spinning stories.
His wizened face creased with emotions and he did not stop the tears coursing down as he introduced me to his family.
I felt that I had been abandoned to these strange people with their black robes and wizened old faces !
Standing by a row of hand basins was a little wizened old lady.
However, contrary to widely held belief she is not a wizened crone.
From the beginning, it seemed that this stooped, wizened old man did n't consider himself to be important at all.
Her plump beauty was often remarked - notably by Washington Irving - in contrast to her husband's delicate and feeble figure and wizened face - for even in his prime Madison was, as Henry Adams says, "a small man, quiet, somewhat precise in manner, pleasant, fond of conversation, with a certain mixture of ease and dignity in his address."
Outside a hammer stopped beating in the old Muslim carpenter 's wizened hand.
Why not ask this wizened woman if she would like to take on an apprentice, like Alan Sugar?
He must train as a Knight under a wizened elder, losing first one guide and then another before he confronts his destiny, and the dark reality that his greatest enemy is his father.
The word "merlin" is so strongly associated with the image of the wise and wizened man that to describe something as a Merlin is to conjure the iconic image.