wizened

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of wizen

comparative more wizened · superlative most wizened

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

   He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.

   1907, Jack London, chapter 7, in Before Adam

   3 more examples

   "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"

   1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Old Mortality

   In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.

   2010 May 13, Richard Corliss, “Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man”, in Time, retrieved 05 Oct 2013

   He’s an old man now, his face wizened and his world limited to a cell in a former convent that serves as one of France’s maximum-security prisons.

   2026 July 23, Joby Warrick, “We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed”, in The New York Times