英：['wɪzn]
美：[ˈwɪzən]
wizen如何读
wizen是什么意思
- v.干涸；使干枯
- adj.凋谢的；枯萎的
wizen英英释义
Adjective
1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
"the old woman's shriveled skin"
"he looked shriveled and ill"
"a shrunken old man"
"a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
"he did well despite his withered arm"
"a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"
wizen词源中文解释
古英语 wisnian， weosnian “枯萎，干枯，消瘦”，源自原始日耳曼语 *wisnon（也指古诺尔斯语 visna “枯萎”，古高地德语 wesanen “干枯，皱缩，枯萎”； 德语 verwesen “腐烂，腐朽”）。相关词汇： Wizened。
wizen词源英文解释
Verb Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian; akin to Old High German wesanēn to wither, Lithuanian vysti Adjective alteration of wizened
The first known use of wizen was before the 12th century
wizen儿童词典英英释义
worship1 of 2noun
chiefly British an important person—used as a title for some officials
great respect toward a divine being or supernatural power
the outward showing of such respect
too great admiration or devotion
worship of money
worship2 of 2verb
to honor or respect as a divine being or supernatural power
to treat with too great respect, honor, or devotion : idolize
worshipped popular singers
to perform or take part in worship
worsenverb
to make or become worse
the weather worsened
worrywartnoun
a person who worries without reasonable cause
Worcestershire saucenoun
a sauce whose ingredients include soy sauce, vinegar, and garlic called alsoWorcestershire
wooverb
to try to gain the love of : court
to seek to gain or bring about
political candidates wooing public support
womanishadjective
associated with or characteristic of women
unmanly sense b
wolf1 of 2noun
plural also wolf any of several large bushy-tailed mammals with ears standing straight up that resemble the related dogs, that prey on other animals, and that often live and hunt in packsespecially: gray wolf compare coyote, jackal
a person who resembles a wolf in fierceness
wolf2 of 2verb
to eat greedily
wolfed down the pizza
wizenverb
to become shrunken or wrinkled often as a result of aging
wizen 例句
1 From last year's blind Chinese crested champion Sweepee Rambo to oddballs like pitbull Quasi Modo and wizened, whiskered Yoda, take a look through the decade's winners of the odd title.
2 Must merited fame endure time's wrong— Glory's ripe grape wizen up to a raisin?
3 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.
4 It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot.
5 "Do you remember a wizen, toothless old wretch, whose eye has more of the Evil One in it than that of many a young thief you see locked up in the county jails?"
6 I'll twist that wizen gullet of hers the next time she shows her ugly black face here!
7 Yes, Creed was dead, with a terrible look on his wizen face, and the dusty old rope ran through its pulley-wheel and was fast to a beam high above.
8 I've been waiting for this night as long as you have been; and now to go back there, and wizen and dry up, when I might be married to John Shand!
9 His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light.
10 The wizen face of the girl's grandmother appeared in the hatchway.
11 She stood there, tearful and wizen, before La Teuse, who was slipping some eggs into the pocket of her apron.
12 An old man, white-haired and wizen, with a face like a knife-blade, and red, blinking eyes.
13 There would be a day when our faces would be wrinkled and wizen.
总有一天,我们的脸会布满皱纹而且变得皱缩的.
14 The scene, overflowing with food, glistening lighting and love passed among wizards wizened and budding, tells us that Hogwarts is the greatest place on earth.
15 His majesty's commands were carried thither; and the chemist, gray and wizen, came forth, bearing a goblet filled with a dark liquid of peculiar odor.
16 "Will you oblige me by putting this in your pocket?" asked the wizen man, giving Mat a card.
17 Between these isolated articles of furniture, and behind an unpainted table sat, in a high-backed chair, a wizen and shabbily-clad old man.
18 The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
19 Let the sun wizen up if it wants to.
20 The surgeon removed his broad-brimmed hat, and wiped his forehead with a hand that looked brown, wizen, and wrinkled as the hand of an old man.