See wizen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness."
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"roman": "izsăhnal",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "изсъхнал"
},
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"roman": "săsuhren",
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"word": "съсухрен"
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "vrásčitý"
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "scvrklý"
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "seschlý"
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "kurttuinen"
},
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
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"word": "raggrinzito"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "rerehe"
},
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"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "vissen"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "innskrumpet"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "sammenskrumpet"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"roman": "vysoxlyj",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
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"word": "висохлий"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "zmorščenyj",
"sense": "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
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"word": "зморщений"
}
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"text": "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.",
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"text": "Where his suspicions were cast no man knew for certain, but his plump features wizened, and his rosy cheeks grew white, his proud head drooped, and he walked with a piteous uncertainty for so pompous and lofty a man.",
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"ref": "1920, G. H. Coons, Genevieve Gillette, “Phenol Injury to Apples”, in Annual Report of The Michigan Academy of Science, volume 21, page 327:",
"text": "1–2000 solution gave no blackening, the tissues of the apple wizening before any effect was seen.",
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"ref": "1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 125:",
"text": "Shrink like coal on the hearth!\nWizen like filth on the wall!",
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"ref": "2019 January 23, Julia Shiota, “The Messiness of Resistance”, in Ploughshares, retrieved 16 Jul 2026:",
"text": "The title itself refers to Nō masks that represent stock women characters from traditional stories—such as the young “madwoman” or the older woman wizened by age and loss—though it is translated into English simply as Masks.",
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"To make wizened."
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"roman": "izsăhvam",
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"word": "изсъхвам"
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"roman": "săsuhrjam se",
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"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
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"sense": "to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage",
"word": "kurtistua"
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