Visual Thesaurus Word of the Day
Thursday, October 4th wizened Old Wrinkle Word of the Day:
A select group of participles in English have long outlived their infinitives, and so it is with wizened -- today an adjective meaning "wrinkled." It's fairly obviously from a verb wizen, now disused, which meant "shrivel." The original verb existed in Old English and is of Germanic origin. The most popular role for wizened is before the noun crone.
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