Definition of "wax" in Anglais

noun

1. Beeswax.

2. Earwax.

   • What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?

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

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

7. (US, slang) 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.

adjective

1. Made of wax.

verb

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

   • waxed silk

verb

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.

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

verb

1. (intransitive, literary) To greaten.

   • Holonym: wax and wane

2. (intransitive, copulative, 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

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

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

noun

1. (rare) The process of growing.

noun

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