All wizen synonyms

verb wizen

• scorch — to affect the color, taste, etc., of by burning slightly: The collar of the shirt was yellow where the iron had scorched it.
• sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
• stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
• swab — a large mop used on shipboard for cleaning decks, living quarters, etc.
• towel — an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.
• soak up — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
• torrefy — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• fossilize — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
• fossilise — Alternative spelling of fossilize.
• welter — to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.
• wrinkle — an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
• mummy — the dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process or some similar method of embalming.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• sag — to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
• cave in — If something such as a roof or a ceiling caves in, it collapses inwards.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• droop — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• fade — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
• melt — to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
• succumb — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• flag — flagstone (def 1).
• languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
• sink — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
• give out — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• waste away — become thin and weak
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• atrophy — If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.
• decay — When something such as a dead body, a dead plant, or a tooth decays, it is gradually destroyed by a natural process.
• deflate — If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
• deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
• disintegrate — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
• perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
• blast — A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
• blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• die — When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
• fold — to confine (sheep or other domestic animals) in a fold.
• dehydrate — When something such as food is dehydrated, all the water is removed from it, often in order to preserve it.