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waxen
Grown.
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- W
- Ends with
- N
- Contains
- AXE
- Scrabble score
- 15
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
Meaning
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.
(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
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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Example Sentences
a waxen tablet
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