wax

/wæks/

noun

  1. 1

    Beeswax.

  2. 2

    Earwax.

    What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
  3. 3

    Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

  4. 4

    Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

  5. 5

    The phonograph record format for music.

  6. 6

    A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

  7. 7

    A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

adjective

  1. 1

    Made of wax.

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verb

  1. 1

    To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    To defeat utterly.

  4. 4

    To kill, especially to murder a person.

  5. 5

    (usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.

noun

  1. 1

    The process of growing.

verb

  1. 1

    To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

  2. 2

    To grow.

  3. 3

    (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

  4. 4

    (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.

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noun

  1. 1

    An outburst of anger.

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