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half-waxen

half-waxen adjective: half-grown; partially completed; incomplete.

Adjective

half-waxen (not comparable)

  1. half-grown; partially completed; incomplete
    • That ghastly broken doll — half-waxen, half-human — stumbled its way in and out of Joan's dreams. . . . […]1989, Irene Rathbone, We That Were Young
    • Beyond the marina, lights danced on the dark water—buoys, boats, a half-waxen moon.2015, Kevin Egan, The Missing Piece

Origin of half-waxen

From Middle English half-waxen, equivalent to half- + waxen (“grown”).

Questions about half-waxen

What does half-waxen mean?
Half-waxen means half-grown; partially completed; incomplete.
What part of speech is half-waxen?
Half-waxen is an adjective.

Words near half-waxen in the dictionary

  1. half-virgin
  2. half-virgins
  3. half-volley
  4. half-volleys
  5. half-waking
  6. half-waxen
  7. half-way
  8. half-wheel
  9. half-wheeled
  10. half-wheeling
  11. half-wheels

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