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waxen

The correct spelling is waxen.

How to pronounce waxen

adjective

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The correct spelling is waxen. Grown. For example: "a waxen tablet"

Usage Examples

a waxen tablet

Meanings

adjective

  1. 1.Grown.
  2. 2.Made of wax; covered with wax.
  3. 3.Of or pertaining to wax.
  4. 4.Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  5. 5.Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

verb

  1. 1.To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  2. 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. 3.To defeat utterly.
  4. 4.To kill, especially to murder a person.
  5. 5.(usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.

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