The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word WAX
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What does WAX mean?
WAX noun- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- The phonograph record format for music.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
- Made of wax.
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- 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.
- To defeat utterly.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
- The process of growing.
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To grow.
- (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
- An outburst of anger.