waxen
adjective
- 1
Grown.
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.
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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adjective
- 1
Made of wax; covered with wax.
“a waxen tablet”
- 2
Of or pertaining to wax.
- 3
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
- 4
Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
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