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wax

/waks/

noun9

  1. an oily solid material that water does not pass through, melts when heated and is used to make candles
  2. Beeswax (a wax secreted by bees).
  3. Earwax (a wax secreted by the ears).
  4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
  5. (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
  6. (informal) The phonograph record format for music.
  7. (informal, old-fashioned) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
  8. (dialect, US) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
  9. (rare) The process of growing.

verb11

  1. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  2. To coat with wax or a similar material.
  3. To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
  4. (literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
  5. To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  6. To move from low tide to high tide.
  7. (literary) To greaten.
  8. (slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
  9. (informal) To defeat utterly.
  10. To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
  11. (no longer used) To record.

adjective1

  1. Made of wax.
forms

waxed · wex · wox · waxedst · waxen · waxing · waxes · waxeth · waxest

Phrases with wax

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