waxen.
Grown.
Meaning & usage
Grown.
Where this word comes from
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).
Made of or covered with wax.
a waxen tablet
Of or pertaining to wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English waxen (“made of wax”), from Old English weaxen (“waxen, made of wax”), equivalent to wax + -en (“made of”).
alternative past participle of wax.
Where this word comes from
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).
plural simple present of wax
Where this word comes from
Equivalent to wax + -en (plural simple present ending).
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