Wox

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of wax (“to become”) form-of, obsolete, past

    "VVhereof when as the Gyant was aware, / He wox right blyth, as he had got thereby, / And laught ſo loud, that all his teeth wide bare [...]"

Example

More examples

"VVhereof when as the Gyant was aware, / He wox right blyth, as he had got thereby, / And laught ſo loud, that all his teeth wide bare [...]"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.