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wizen

[wiz-uhn, wee-zuhn] / ˈwɪz ən, ˈwi zən /






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It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

One of the first people to call on Miss Norman was a dry, wizen monkey of a man, who announced himself as Jabez Pash, the solicitor of the deceased.

From The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume

The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.

From Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment by Tobias Aconite

Though his face was wizen, the leanness of his body had no appearance of weakness, but rather every sign of strength.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens

The voice comes through their wizen mouths like wind from the crack of an old wainscot.

From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman


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