wizened

Etymology

wizen + ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of wizen

adj

1. Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
   "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!" 1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 8, in Old Mortality
   He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray. 1907, Jack London, chapter 7, in Before Adam
   In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time. May 13 2010, Richard Corliss, “Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man”, in Time, retrieved 2013-10-05