Waken vs Waxen - What's the difference?
waken | waxen |
(lb) To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
(lb) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
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Made of wax; covered with wax.
Of or pertaining to wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
(rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
