wax

1. (n) Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. 2. (adj) Made of wax. 3. (v) (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material. 4. (v) (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. 5. (v) (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. 6. (v) (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly. 7. (v) (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person. 8. (n) (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music. 9. (n) Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish. 10. (n) (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it. 11. (n) (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil. 12. (v) (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon. 13. (v) (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide. 14. (v) (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic. 15. (v) (intransitive, literary) To greaten. 16. (n) (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger, a loss of temper, a fit of rage. 17. (v) (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record. 18. (n) (rare) The process of growing. 19. (n) Beeswax. 20. (n) Earwax. 21. (n) A surname.