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All wax synonyms

wax
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verb wax

  • polish — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
  • shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • buff — Something that is buff is pale brown in colour.
  • expand — explain
  • increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
  • enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
  • grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
  • swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
  • become — If someone or something becomes a particular thing, they start to change and develop into that thing, or start to develop the characteristics mentioned.
  • turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • fuller — the highest or fullest state, condition, or degree: The moon is at the full.
  • augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
  • build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
  • come — When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.
  • develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
  • dilate — to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
  • heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
  • magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
  • mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
  • multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
  • rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
  • run — execution
  • upsurge — to surge up; increase; rise: Water upsurged. Crime upsurged.
  • fill out — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.

noun wax

  • beeswax — Beeswax is wax that is made by bees and used especially for making candles and furniture polish.
  • honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
  • candlewax — The wax of a candle.
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