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waxen

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"Pale and smooth"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈwæksən/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aenwxStarts with WEnds with N1 clues
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Definitions

  1. having the paleness of wax

Word origin

From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, ġeweaxen, from Proto-Germanic *wahsanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to wax, grow, increase”), equivalent to wax + -en (past participle ending).

Used in a sentence

  • When the rayne is faln, the cloudes wexen cleare.
  • and then the whole Quire hould their hippes, and loffe, and waxen in their myrth, and neeze, and ſweare a merrier hower was neuer waſted there.
  • a waxen tablet

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