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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

wizened
    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

Wizened \Wiz"ened\, a.
   Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened
   old man.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for wizened:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy, ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed, runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wraithlike, wrinkled

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