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US
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[ UK /wˈæks/ ]
[ UK /wˈæks/ ]
VERB
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increase in phase
the moon is waxing -
go up or advance
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered -
cover with wax
wax the car
NOUN
- any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
How To Use wax In A Sentence
- This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
- The income comes not just from the honey but also beeswax polish and face creams.
- The bee, the robin, the frog, and the dragonfly are all made using wax that I dyed with black cobalt stain. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Wall Mosaic 1: Girl with Scythe
- The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
- She smoothed paste wax on the old red linoleum and buffed it by hand.
- No doubt some of these are metrosexuals, those city-dwelling gents with more than enough disposable income to spend on clothes, restaurants, the latest gadgets, exotic holidays and eyebrow waxing.
- Among the most desolate sandhills you may find in July acres of wax-white pyrola – like lilies of the valley splashed with pink – covering the plains between the lonely ridges of harsh, grey grass. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
- The hipster cops are sneering at the two faux surfers: 'I'm all dialed in to see what happens if the pair of rainbow donks actually hit the briny on their unwaxed legs.' Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
- In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.