as in gaunt
dry and wrinkled usually because of old age
the old man's wizened face
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Adjective
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Some appeared gaunt, and the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said four were immediately taken for medical treatment.—
Greg Norman,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025 -
Some appeared gaunt, and the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said four were taken for treatment.—
Jalal Bwaitel,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a slight Francis Bacon aspect to them, poetic but at the same time incontrovertibly real, depicting every distorted limb, every haggard face and emaciated body, every wound and scar.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Nobody could have given this song so much haggard soul.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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An explosion shakes the camera, and two skeletal buildings—the only ones visible on the entire block—collapse in a mushroom cloud.—
Mosab Abu Toha,
The New Yorker,
31 Dec. 2024
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Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner on Friday announced skeletal remains found last year near Cherry Creek are those of an Indigenous woman who had been missing since May.—
Max Levy,
The Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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However, Assad’s army withered away with hardly a shot being fired in anger, or in Assad’s defense.—
Daniel Markind,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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But the defense surrendered a touchdown on the first drive and withered at critical junctures.—
Jesse Temple,
The Athletic,
24 Nov. 2024
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“Wizened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wizened. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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