Definitions for wizen

wizen wiz·en

Spelling: [wiz-uh n; wee-zuh n]
IPA: /ˈwɪz ən; ˈwi zən/

Wizen is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in wizen (einwz).

Definitions for wizen

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to wither; shrivel; dry up.

adjective

  1. wizened.

Origin of wizen

before 900; (v.) Middle English wisenen, Old English wisnian; cognate with Old Norse visna to wither; (adj.) shortened form of wizened

Examples for wizen

Another little girl was heard to say she would slit her sister's wisdom—a slip, no doubt, for wizen.

His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.

Though his face was wizen, the leanness of his body had no appearance of weakness, but rather every sign of strength.

Withered and wizen, they are reduced to skin and bone by sheer famine.

His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.

There 's a young feller 'round here, Betsy, as wants ter look out fer his wizen.

And, if he mentioned who he was, could not the wizen man by his side help him to get at them?

On the contrary, Dallas' evident interest in the stranger had stirred the unnatural jealousy in her father's wizen brain.

Aged she seemed, incredibly old, wizen, dried; though with these people who can tell of age?

I'll twist that wizen gullet of hers the next time she shows her ugly black face here!

Word Value for wizen
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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