wax

IPA: wˈæks

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.
(uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
(US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
(rare) The process of growing.
(dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
A surname.

(transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
(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, informal) To defeat utterly.
(transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
(transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
(intransitive, literary) To greaten.
(intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
(intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
(intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.

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