waxen
adjective
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Grown.
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Grown.
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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.
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To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To grow.
(of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
(of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
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Made of wax; covered with wax.
Example: a waxen tablet
Of or pertaining to wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
Easily effaced, as if written in wax.