wizen
Example Sentences
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It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Let the sun wizen up if it wants to.
From The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee
When I got back in hiding I spoke out, I told him something—something that made his crabbed old soul wizen up, something that scared the daylights out of him.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman
An old man, white-haired and wizen, with a face like a knife-blade, and red, blinking eyes.
From Nautilus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
The voice comes through their wizen mouths like wind from the crack of an old wainscot.
From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman
