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Meanings of wizen in English
Synonyms
Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1
A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
2
Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
3
The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
4
His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
5
The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken.
1
And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2
Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3
The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4
She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5
It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1
The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2
He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3
The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4
Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5
Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
1
The lined and wizened face of the German General stood before him.
2
The wizened eyes brightened, and when he stopped one of them whispered:
3
He looked ancient in the torchlight: more wizened and mummified than ever.
4
The ruts on the road were worn and wizened by the cold.
5
Below the top bars of a wizened grate was a chilly fire.
Usage of wizen in English
1
One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen, and misshapen.
2
A cunning, wizen head peered out at him from the gloom.
3
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
4
His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
5
Mr. Finch's wizen little legs took him out of the room.
6
When their crier, a small wizen-faced man, began the Azan with a voice
7
The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.
8
The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
9
He held out one of his wizen little arms.
10
At length a small wizen-faced man appeared from below.
11
Stella's eyes also rested upon the tiny wizen face.
12
Then a little wizen-faced, dried-up old man said he would put up $400.
13
He is a small, wizen-faced man, quiet, self-contained, and fond-exceedinglyfond-ofhaving his own way.
14
His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
15
I'll twist that wizen gullet of hers the next time she shows her ugly black face here!
16
His eyes were dim; his hair had turned completely grey; his face was wizen; his figure had shrunk.
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