wizened
shrunken and wrinkled, typically from age
Wizened in a sentence
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The wizened old fisherman had spent sixty years at sea.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
More GRE words starting with W
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marked by reckless cruelty or a deliberate disregard for restraint
to sing with trilling, modulated notes
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