Definitions for grizzled

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grizzled griz·zled

Spelling: [griz-uh ld]

IPA: /ˈgrɪz əld/

Grizzled is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 28 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 30 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in grizzled (degilrzz).

Definitions for grizzled

noun

1. gray or partly gray hair.
2. a gray wig.

adjective

1. having gray or partly gray hair.
2. gray or partly gray.
3. gray; grayish; devoid of hue.

verb (used without object)

1. to complain; whimper; whine.
2. to laugh or grin in mockery; sneer.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become gray or partly gray.

Origin of grizzled

1350-1400; Middle English. See grizzle¹, -ed³

Examples for grizzled

A grizzled old knight, whom I am not like to mistake for my true spouse.

As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.

He is quiet, with grizzled hair, and a muffler for a collar.

And Ford delivers another impressive performance as the hard-ass, take-no-prisoners colonel; like a hardened, grizzled Han Solo.

An unlikely partnership between a grizzled detective and a highly evolved android proves particularly fruitful.

Not another word did the dry and grizzled man say, but bent to his work again.

Boyle by then was a grizzled veteran of amphibious landings, having witnessed four of them in the Mediterranean Theater.

He was tall and gaunt, and his deeply graven face was framed by grizzled hair.

Next day, DSK was perp-walking his way, haggard and grizzled, into infamy.

The top of his grizzled head is narrow, the bottom of it broad.