grizzle

[US]/'grɪz(ə)l/
[UK]/ˈɡrɪzəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. gray color; hair that is turning gray or white
vi. to become gray; to complain
vt. to make gray
adj. gray-colored
Word Forms
Third Person Singulargrizzles
Past Participlegrizzled
Present Participlegrizzling
Past Tensegrizzled
Pluralgrizzles

Phrases & Collocations

grizzle with onions

grizzle with mushrooms

tender grizzle steak

slow-cooked grizzle stew

Example Sentences

9:30am, BO WU GUAN bus stop, an old beggar. shivered in bise his grizzled beard.

The old man's beard was grizzled with age.

She grizzled at the thought of having to work late again.

The grizzled detective had seen it all in his long career.

The grizzled veteran shared stories of his time in the war.

His grizzled appearance gave him a rugged charm.

The grizzled old dog wagged its tail happily.

The grizzled mountains loomed in the distance.

She grizzled as she struggled to open the stubborn jar.

The grizzled tree stood tall against the wind.

The grizzled sky foretold an impending storm.

Real-world Examples

The sergeant in charge was a bow-legged, grizzled little man with a large wad of tobacco in his cheek.

Source: Gone with the Wind

His hair is grizzled and he is dressed in grey.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part One)

Is this grizzled, mustachioed sea guy.

Source: Radio Laboratory

You must make up your mind to grizzled bachelors or widowers.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part Two)

Not so very old, although his hair was grizzled—what there was of it.

Source: Scarecrow

" Crow, crow, You are grizzled, I know, But from Russia you come; Ah me, there lies home" !

Source: Virgin Land (Part 1)

The detective turned about and scrutinized us keenly; and through the gaslit mist I noticed that his hair was grizzled at the temples, and his face still cadaverous, from the wound that had nearly been his death.

Source: Amateur Thief Rafiz

There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two.

Source: Itan Flomei

If you take these old surviving cells and compete them, also under starvation conditions, against a new, fast-growing culture of E. coli, the grizzled old tough guys beat out the squeaky clean upstarts every single time.

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) June 2019 Collection

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