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wax

noun adjective verb

Beeswax.

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Word Facts

Word length
3
Starts with
W
Ends with
X
Contains
A
Scrabble score
13
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

/wæks/ /wæks/

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Definitions

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.

  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. A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

adjective

  1. Made of wax.

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.

noun

  1. An outburst of anger.

In context

Example Sentences

What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

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