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Beeswax.

Earwax. +

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

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish. +

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

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

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

Made of wax.

To coat with wax or a similar material.

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

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) To defeat utterly.

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

(of a musical or oral performance) To record.

(literary) To greaten.

(literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic. +

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

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

(rare) The process of growing.

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