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Uncommonwaxed
The correct spelling is waxed.
How to pronounce waxed
verb
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The correct spelling is waxed. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
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Meanings
verb
- 1.To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- 2.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.To defeat utterly.
- 4.To kill, especially to murder a person.
- 5.(usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
adjective
- 1.Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
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