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waxen

adjective verb

Grown.

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Word length
5
Starts with
W
Ends with
N
Contains
AX
Scrabble score
15

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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.

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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a waxen tablet

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