wizen (adj.)

  1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; the old womans shriveled skin; he looked shriveled and ill; a shrunken old man; a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

    [ Syn: shriveled , shrivelled , shrunken , withered , wizened ]

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