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Waxen

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Adjective

1. waxen, waxy

made of or covered with wax

Example Sentences:
'waxen candles'
'careful, the floor is waxy'

2. waxen, waxlike, waxy

having the paleness of wax

Example Sentences:
'the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor'
'the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him'
'a thin face with a waxy paleness'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Waxen

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adjective
1. 
made of, treated with, or covered with wax
2. 
resembling wax in colour or texture
verb
archaic a past participle of wax2

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Waxen

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adjective
1. 
made of wax
2. 
like wax, as in being yellowish, soft, smooth, lustrous, pale, plastic, pliable, impressionable, etc.
3. 
covered with wax
verb intransitive
Archaic
wax1

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Waxen

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adj.
1. Made of or covered with wax.
2. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin.
3. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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