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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wax wode en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English waxen wode.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To become angry because of something; be made angry by someone or something.
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode, my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake 1806, James Petite Andews, The History of Great Britain:
  2. (obsolete) To be alienated from somebody; be overcome with repugnance for.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wex wode Tense=Past archaic lexicographic
wex wode Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part archaic lexicographic
waxed wode Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
waxed wode Tense=Past lexicographic
waxing wode Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
waxes wode Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
waxen wode Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part archaic, dialectal lexicographic