wax

Mane (English)

Noun

1. Beeswax.
2. Earwax.
3. Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
4. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
5. (informal) The phonograph record format for music.
6. A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
7. (slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.

Adj

Made of wax.

Verb

1. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
2. 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. (informal) To defeat utterly.
4. (slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
5. To record.

Verb

1. To greaten.
2. To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
3. To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
4. To move from low tide to high tide.

Synonyms

grow

beeswax

polish

🇵🇱

increase

candle

🕯️

accrue

rise

mount

full

tallow

augment

climb

lacker

cere

amplify

cerumen

flourish

progress

prosper

varnish

become

get

grease

aggrandize

develop

heighten

earwax

suet

swell

thrive

oil

proliferate

raise

razor

🪒

row

rub

shaver

shine

ski wax

spoilt

stem

step up

vegetate

waxing

waxy

worn out

bourgeon

increase up

Beeswax

beef fat

mutton fat

burgeon forth

process of waxing

cerin

waxy simoniz

Earwax

attain

be

boom

💥

brighten

build

build up

burgeon

burnish

butter

🧈

cerium

coat

🧥

come

depilatory

enamel

enlarge

epilate

expand

fat

furbish

gather

gloss

growth

gum

honey

🍯

honey bee

lacquer

lard

magnify

multiply

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/wæks/

Etymology (English)

Inherited from Middle English: wax

Inherited from Old English: weax

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Woaks

Cognate with frîsî: waaks

Cognate with holendî: was

Cognate with almanî: Wachs

Cognate with norwecî: voks

Cognate with lîtwanî: vaškas

Inherited from Middle English: waxen

Inherited from Old English: weaxan

Cognate with skotî: wax

Cognate with frîsî: waakse

Cognate with nedersaksî: wassen

Cognate with holendî: wassen

Cognate with almanî: wachsen

Cognate with danmarkî: -

Cognate with norwecî: -

Cognate with swêdî: växa

Cognate with îzlendî: vaxa

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἀέξω

Cognate with latînî: auxilium

In summary

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From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).