waxen
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English
Definitions
adjective
- Grown.
verb
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- 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.
- To defeat utterly.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
verb
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To grow.
- (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
adjective
- Made of wax; covered with wax.“a waxen tablet”
- Of or pertaining to wax.
- Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
- Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
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Synonyms
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