wax

Beeswax, a kind of wax

Meanings

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.
The phonograph record format for music.
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
The process of growing.
An outburst of anger.

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.
To defeat utterly.
To kill, especially to murder a person.
To record.
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
To grow.
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
To move from low tide to high tide.

From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks, West Frisian waaks, Dutch was, German Wachs, Norwegian voks; and with Lithuanian vaškas, Proto-Slavic *voskъ.
From Middle English waxen, from the noun (see above).
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxan, from Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg-. Cognate with Scots wax, West Frisian waakse, Low German wassen, Dutch wassen, German wachsen, Danish and Norwegian vokse, Swedish växa, Icelandic vaxa, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽; and with Ancient Greek ἀέξω, Latin auxilium. It is in its turn cognate with augeo. See eke.
Origin uncertain; probably from phrases like to wax angry, wax wode, and similar (see Etymology 2, above).

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