The verb wax is most often found in the company of its opposite, "wane." To wax is to grow larger or increase, whereas wane means to grow smaller or decrease.
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
Noun
any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
Verb
go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
Verb
increase in phase; "the moon is waxing"
Verb
cover with wax; "wax the car"
v. i.
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or
fuller; -- opposed to wane.
v. i.
To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as,
to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to
wax worse and worse.
n.
A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by
them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It
is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form
of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become
whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
n.
Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or
appearance.
n.
Cerumen, or earwax.
n.
A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding
air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching
wax, etc.
n.
A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their
thread.
n.
A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of
scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
n.
A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable
wax, under Vegetable.
n.
A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with
certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and
ozocerite.
n.
Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple,
and then cooling.
v. t.
To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a
thread or a table.
Wax
The waxing and the waning of the moon.
Truth's treasures . . . never shall wax ne wane.2.
Your clothes are not waxen old upon you.
Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound.
Wax
Wax
To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
Usage Examples
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Misspelled FormWax, Wax, ax, Wax, Wqax, Wwax, Wsax, Wzax, Wqx, Wwx, Wsx, Wzx, Waqx, Wawx, Wasx, Wazx, Wazx, Wasx, Wadx, Wacx, Waz, Was, Wad, Wac, Waxz, Waxs, Waxd, Waxc.
Other Usage ExamplesColloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.