wax

(countable, uncountable)Beeswax.

(countable, uncountable)Earwax.

What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

Đồng nghĩa: cerumen

(countable, uncountable)Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

(countable, uncountable)Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

Đồng nghĩa: polish

(informal, uncountable)(uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.

Đồng nghĩa: vinyl, record

(US, countable, dialectal, uncountable)(US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

(US, countable, slang, uncountable)Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.

He was charged with two felonies, for possession of Xanax and wax.

(rare, uncountable)The process of growing.

(colloquial, dated)An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage.

(not comparable)Made of wax.

(transitive)To coat with wax or a similar material.

waxed silk

(intransitive)To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).

(transitive)To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

Đồng nghĩa: buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnish

(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.

(informal, transitive)To defeat utterly.

(slang, transitive)To kill, especially to murder a person.

Đồng nghĩa: bump off, knock off, whack, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

(archaic, transitive, usually)(transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.

(intransitive, literary)To greaten.

Holonym: wax and wane

(copulative, intransitive, literary)To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, come, fall, grow

to wax poetic

to wax wode

to wax eloquent

Đồng nghĩa: become, get, go, turn, come, fall, grow

(intransitive)(intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

(intransitive)(intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.