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waxed
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- D
- Contains
- AXE
- Scrabble score
- 16
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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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.
(usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
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
Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
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