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waxedverb1past tense of wax to coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce frictionwaxing a surfboard greased, lubricated, oiled, slicked bathed, doused(also dowsed), drenched, soaked, soused, washed, watered, wet(or wetted) coarsened, roughed, rougheneddehydrated, dried, parched, seared slangto defeat by a large marginI can't believe I bet on a football team that ended up getting waxed 45-0 annihilated, blew away, bombed, buried, clobbered, creamed, drubbed, dusted, flattened, pasted, routed, shellacked, skinned, skunked, smoked(slang), smothered, snowed under, thrashed, trimmed, tromped, trounced, walloped, whipped, whomped, whopped(or whapped), whupped swept, upsetbeat, bested, conquered, dispatched, hurdled, licked, mastered, overbore, overcame, overmatched, prevailed (over), subdued, surmounted, threw, took, triumphed (over), won (against), worstedcrushed, knocked off, knocked over, overpowered, overthrew, overwhelmed, subjugated, upended, vanquishedaced (out), bettered, eclipsed, exceeded, outdid, outdistanced, outfought, outshone(or outshined), outstripped, overtopped, surpassed, topped, transcendededged (out), nosed out, pipped(British)capped, excelled, flourished, scored, succeededbroke, destroyed, did in, finished, sank(or sunk), slaughtered ate alive, beat the pants off, ran circles around(or ran rings around), wiped the floor with(or wiped the ground with) waxedverb2past tense of waxto become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberthe commitment of the young volunteers to the cause seems to wax and wane accelerated, accumulated, appreciated, ballooned, boomed, built up, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), climbed, enlarged, escalated, expanded, gained, increased, mounted, multiplied, mushroomed, proliferated, rolled up, rose, snowballed, spread, swelled jumped, rocketed, skyrocketed, surgedheightened, intensified, redoubledblew up, bulked, distended, inflated, puffed (up)crescendoed, crested, peaked contracted, decreased, diminished, dwindled, lessened, receded, waned to eventually have as a state or qualitywaxed poetic whenever he wrote to his girlfriend became, came, got, grew, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), turned, went altered, changed, metamorphosed, modified, mutated, transfigured, transformed, transmuted abided(also abode), continued, lingered, remained, stayed, was |