wax

wax

wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)

1. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
2. (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.
3. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
4. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
   • 2005, David L. Robbins, Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express, page 83:

     ""I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in."" Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th whod been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....

   • 2009, Dean R. Koontz and Ed Gorman, Dean Koontzs Frankenstein: City of Night, ISBN 9780553593334, p. 106:

     ""You telling me you know who really waxed him and your mom?"" / ""Yeah,"" she lied. / ""Just who pulled the trigger or who ordered it to be pulled?""

wax (countable and uncountable; plural waxes)

1. Beeswax.
2. Earwax.
3. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
5. A phonograph record.

wax (not comparable)

1. Made of wax.

	cera
	made of wax
	oily, water-resistant substance

	crescere
	literary: grow
	of the moon: appear larger each night
	(Per esseri viventi) divenire più grande.
	(For a living being) To become bigger.

	divenire
	to assume specified characteristic

	diventare
	to assume specified characteristic

aumentare

ceralacca

cerume

créscere

di cera

farsi

grasso

incrementare

ingrandire

sciolina

Altri significati:

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

remove hair from

process of growing

(rare) The process of growing.

wax (for polishing)

(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.

Made of wax.

Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

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

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

preparation containing wax, used as a polish

Beeswax.

(intransitive, literary) To grow.

Earwax.

phonograph record

A phonograph record.

(intransitive, with adjective) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.

apply wax to

(dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

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