waxen

adjective

  1. 1

    Grown.

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.

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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adjective

  1. 1

    Made of wax; covered with wax.

    a waxen tablet
  2. 2

    Of or pertaining to wax.

  3. 3

    Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.

  4. 4

    Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

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