The difference between Become and Wax

When used as verbs, become means to arrive, come (to a place), whereas wax means to apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

Wax is also noun with the meaning: beeswax.

Wax is also adjective with the meaning: made of wax.

check bellow for the other definitions of Become and Wax

  1. Become as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To arrive, come (to a place).

  2. Become as a verb (copulative):

    To come about; happen; come into being; arise.

    Examples:

    "What became of him after he was let go?"

    "It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve."

  3. Become as a verb (copulative):

    begin to be; turn into.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: get turn go"

    "She became a doctor when she was 25."

    "The weather will become cold after the sun goes down."

  4. Become as a verb (transitive):

    To be proper for; to beseem.

  5. Become as a verb (transitive):

    Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).

    Examples:

    "That dress really becomes you."

  1. Wax as a noun:

    Beeswax.

  2. Wax as a noun:

    Earwax.

    Examples:

    "What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?"

  3. Wax as a noun:

    Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

  4. Wax as a noun:

    Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

  5. Wax as a noun (uncountable):

    The phonograph record format for music.

  6. Wax as a noun (US, dialect):

    A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

  7. Wax as a noun (US, slang):

    A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

  1. Wax as an adjective:

    Made of wax.

  1. Wax as a verb (transitive):

    To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

  2. Wax as a verb (transitive):

    To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.

  3. Wax as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To defeat utterly.

  4. Wax as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To kill, especially to murder a person.

  5. Wax as a verb (transitive, archaic, usually, of a musical or oral performance):

    To record.

  6. Wax as a verb (intransitive):

    To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.

  1. Wax as a verb (intransitive, with adjective):

    To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.

    Examples:

    "to [[wax lyrical]];  to wax eloquent;  to [[wax wode]]"

  2. Wax as a verb (intransitive, literary):

    To grow.

  3. Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[moon]]):

    To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

  4. Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[tide]]):

    To move from low tide to high tide.

  1. Wax as a noun (rare):

    The process of growing.

  1. Wax as a noun (dated, colloquial):

    An outburst of anger.

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