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What does wax mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wax? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Beeswax.
  2. Earwax.
  3. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
  4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
  5. (uncountable) The phonograph record format for music.
  6. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
  7. (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
Adjective
  1. Made of wax.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  2. (transitive) 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. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
  4. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
  5. (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record. [from 1900]
Verb
  1. (intransitive, with adjective) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
  2. (literary) To grow.
  3. (moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  4. (tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
Noun
  1. (rare) The process of growing.
Noun
  1. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.
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