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1. Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

1. Cover with wax
   "wax the car"
    
2. Go up or advance
   "Sales were waxing after prices were lowered"
   - mount, climb, rise
    
3. Increase in phase
   "the moon is waxing"
   - full
    
4. Remove hair from part of the body by coating the skin with wax that is then pulled off with the hair

Sounds like: whacks

Derived forms: waxing, waxed, waxes

See also: waxing, waxy

Type of: cover, increase, lipid, lipide, lipoid

Antonym: wane

Encyclopedia: Wax Wax, animal and vegetable Wax, petroleum