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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

wizen
    adj 1: 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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled,
           shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wizen \Wiz"en\, v. i. [OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian
   to decay, OHG. wesan?n to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel.
   visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L.
   virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.]
   To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wizen \Wiz"en\, a.
   Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
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         A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. --Dickens.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Wizen \Wiz"en\, n.
   The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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Thesaurus Results for Wizen:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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