wax
- Noun. Beeswax.
- Noun. Earwax.
- Noun. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Noun. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Noun. A phonograph record.
- Adjective. Made of wax.
- Verb. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- Verb. (transitive) 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.
- Verb. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- Verb. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- Verb. (intransitive, with adjective) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
- Verb. (intransitive, literary) To grow.
- Verb. (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- Noun. (rare) The process of growing.
- Noun. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
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