WIZENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wizened mean? 

• WIZENED (adjective)
  The adjective WIZENED has 1 sense:

1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

  Familiarity information: WIZENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIZENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

Synonyms:

shriveled; shrivelled; shrunken; withered; wizen; wizened

Context example:

a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

He had a wizened face, and sharp little dark eyes, which took in me and the house and my mother’s startled face at the window all in the instant.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every nincompoop in the land rushed into free print, floating their wizened little egos into the public eye on the surge of Brissenden's greatness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Indeed, they are children both—the one wizened and cantankerous, the other formidable and overbearing, yet each with a brain which has put him in the front rank of his scientific age.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A door suddenly flew open out of what appeared to be solid wall at the end of the corridor, and a little, wizened man darted out of it, like a rabbit out of its burrow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)