waxen

Meanings

1. Grown.

1. alternative past participle of wax.

1. plural simple present of wax

1. Made of or covered with wax.
2. Of or pertaining to wax.
3. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
4. Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
5. Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

Etymology

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).