See wizen on Wiktionary
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},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "svraskat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "scvrknout se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "seschnout"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "kurtistua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "kurttuuntua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "mennä kurttuun"
}
],
"word": "wizen"
}
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