wex

Verb (1)

wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)

1. (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
   • waxed silk
2. (intransitive) To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
   • The syrup is waxing. Come and help yourselves.1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods

Verb (2)

wax (third-person singular simple present waxes, present participle waxing, simple past and past participle waxed)

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

   Synonyms:

   buff, shine, polish, furbish, burnish

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. (informal, transitive) To defeat utterly.
4. (slang, transitive) To kill, especially to murder a person.
   • "I was reassigned over from the 9th when the battalion CO got waxed on the road leading in." Ben kept his dismay to himself. Here was one more officer in the 90th who'd been on the job only hours or days, replacing commanders killed or wounded....2005, David L. Robbins, Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Red Ball Express, page 83

   Synonyms:

   bump off, knock off, whack, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury

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