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wax·en
(wăk′sən)adj.
1. Made of or covered with wax.
2. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin.
3. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds.
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waxen
(ˈwæksən)adj
1. made of, treated with, or covered with wax
2. resembling wax in colour or texture
waxen
(ˈwæksən)vb
archaic a past participle of wax2
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wax•en1
(ˈwæk sən)adj.
1. made of or covered, polished, or treated with wax.
2. pallid: the waxen face of illness.
3. malleable; pliable; impressionable.
wax•en2
(ˈwæk sən)v.
Literary. a pp. of wax 2.
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Adj. | 1. | waxen - made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" |
2. | waxen - having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful |
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waxen
adjective pale, white, ghastly, wan, bloodless, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashen, whitish His skin was waxen and pale and his eyes were sunken.
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waxen
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Translations
bleg
viaszból való
vaxkenndur, eins og vax
mumlu
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waxen
[ˈwæksən] adj → cireux/eusewax museum n → musée m de cirewax paper n (US) (= waxed paper) → papier m paraffinéCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
waxen
adj
(old) → wächsern
(fig: = pale) → wachsbleich, wächsern
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wax1
(wӕks) noun1. the sticky, fatty substance of which bees make their cells; beeswax.
2. the sticky, yellowish substance formed in the ears.
3. a manufactured, fatty substance used in polishing, to give a good shine. furniture wax.
4. (also adjective) (also ˈcandle-wax) (of) a substance made from paraffin, used in making candles, models etc, that melts when heated. a wax model.
5. sealing-wax.
verb to smear, polish or rub with wax.
waxed adjective having a coating of wax. waxed paper.
ˈwaxen, ˈwaxy adjectiveˈwaxwork noun
a wax model (usually of a well-known person).
ˈwaxworks noun plural an exhibition of such models.
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