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waxverb1 to coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce frictionwaxing a surfboard grease, lubricate, oil, slick bathe, douse(also dowse), drench, soak, souse, wash, water, wet coarsen, rough, roughendehydrate, dry, parch, sear slangto defeat by a large marginI can't believe I bet on a football team that ended up getting waxed 45-0 annihilate, blow away, bomb, bury, clobber, cream, drub, dust, flatten, paste, rout, shellac, skin, skunk, smoke(slang), smother, snow under, thrash, trim, tromp, trounce, wallop, whip, whomp, whop(or whap), whup sweep, upsetbeat, best, conquer, dispatch, hurdle, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), subdue, surmount, take, throw, triumph (over), win (against), worstcrush, knock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, subjugate, upend, vanquishace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcendedge (out), nose out, pip(British)cap, excel, flourish, score, succeedbreak, destroy, do in, finish, sink, slaughter beat the pants off, eat alive, run circles around(or run rings around), wipe the floor with(or wipe the ground with) waxverb2to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberthe commitment of the young volunteers to the cause seems to wax and wane accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon(also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell jump, rocket, skyrocket, surgeheighten, intensify, redoubleblow up, bulk, distend, inflate, puff (up)crescendo, crest, peak contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane to eventually have as a state or qualitywaxed poetic whenever he wrote to his girlfriend become, come, get, go, grow, run, turn alter, change, metamorphose, modify, mutate, transfigure, transform, transmute abide, be, continue, linger, remain, stay before the 12th century |