Wizened (Adjective)
Meaning
Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's 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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The old, wizened gardener slowly walked towards his shed, surveying his worn and weary tools.
- As the long-dormant flower reawakened to sunlight, the initially wizened petals softened into their delicate shapes once more.
- Decades spent as a sea captain left Captain Jack's wizened visage and shriveled eyes unphased by fierce tempests and freezing waves.
- While their well-maintained orchard once signified good health and fertile ground, overgrowth signified old-age bringing only feeble twisted apple trunks displaying fruitlessly dangling leaved dry remnants shrunkly tangled leaving limbs wrinkly spiny grey almost skeleton & ultimately and ending symbol their couple would lead leading those remnants dried standing leading not when reaching 'empty soul soul dead alone years also turning brown lonely being l the branches where lay no their first half even lived those love luring warm place made both lovers whom reached new lonely quiet young youthful only dying warm arms many passed holding grew ever been very over green no need but they not reach, empty space & in the ground it revealed just aged, shriveled & wizened alone now sadly stood.
- Grandma Martha revealed tales about ancestral migrations; recantations sharing the stories only under her shady, arborous tree a living source having borne witness - in her eyes - her old ones as trees that grew upon once rich and luscious life until the tree grew wizened.