wax
noun
- 1
Beeswax.
- 2
Earwax.
“What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?”
- 3
Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- 4
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
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The phonograph record format for music.
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A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
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A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
adjective
- 1
Made of wax.
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verb
- 1
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- 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
To defeat utterly.
- 4
To kill, especially to murder a person.
- 5
(usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
noun
- 1
The process of growing.
verb
- 1
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- 2
To grow.
- 3
(of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- 4
(of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
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noun
- 1
An outburst of anger.
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