wax

Plural: waxes

Noun

any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
Beeswax.
Earwax.
Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
The phonograph record format for music.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
The process of growing.
An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

Verb

Verb Forms: waxed, waxing, waxes

To coat, treat, or polish with wax.
cover with wax
- "wax the car"
go up or advance
increase in phase
- "the moon is waxing"
To coat with wax or a similar material.
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.
To record.
To greaten.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
To move from low tide to high tide.

Adj

Made of wax.

Examples

He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.
I needed to WAX my strategy, making it smooth and impenetrable.
to wax eloquent
to wax poetic
to wax wode
What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).

Synonyms

climb, full, mount, rise, annihilate, bag, baptize, become#Verb, bereave of life, blight, bring down, buff, bump off, burnish, bury, cack, cerumen, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, furbish, get#Verb, grease, grow#Verb, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, record, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shine, slaughter, slay, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, vinyl, waste, wax, waxen, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

Antonyms

wane

Scrabble Score: 13

wax: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wax: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wax: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

wax: valid Words With Friends Word