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wax

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Noun

  1. Beeswax.
  2. Earwax.
  3. Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
  4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
  5. The phonograph record format for music.
  6. A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
  7. Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
  8. The process of growing.
  9. An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

Adjective

  1. Made of wax.

Verb

  1. To coat with wax or a similar material.
  2. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  3. 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.
  4. To defeat utterly.
  5. To kill, especially to murder a person.
  6. To record.
  7. To greaten.
  8. To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
  9. To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  10. To move from low tide to high tide.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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