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▸ noun: Earwax.
▸ noun: Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
▸ noun: Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
▸ noun: (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
▸ noun: (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
▸ noun: (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
▸ adjective: Made of wax.
▸ verb: (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
▸ verb: (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
▸ verb: (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
▸ verb: (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
▸ noun: (rare) The process of growing.
▸ noun: (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.
▸ noun: A surname.
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