wax
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Is wax a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.Examples: "What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax."Synonyms: vinyl, recordinformaluncountable
2. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.UScountabledialectaluncountable
3. (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.Examples: "He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax."UScountableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.Examples: "waxed silk"transitive
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.Synonyms: buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnishtransitive
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.transitive
3. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.informaltransitive
4. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.Examples: ""I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded...."; ""You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?" "Yeah," she lied. "Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?""Synonyms: bump off, knock off, whack, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blightslangtransitive
5. (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.archaictransitiveusually
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, literary) To greaten.Examples: "Holonym: wax and wane"; "And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there."; "For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulks, but, as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal."Antonyms: waneintransitiveliterary
2. (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.Examples: "to wax poetic"; "to wax wode"; "to wax eloquent"Synonyms: grow#Verb, become#Verb, get#Verbcopulativeintransitiveliterary
3. (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.intransitive
4. (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (rare) The process of growing.rareuncountable
noun (English)
1. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.Examples: "father Arnall's face looked very black but he was not in a wax: he was laughing."; "‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’"colloquialdated
Definition source: Wiktionary