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waxingverb1present participle of wax to coat (something) with a slippery substance in order to reduce frictionwaxing a surfboard greasing, lubricating, oiling, slicking bathing, dousing(also dowsing), drenching, soaking, sousing, washing, watering, wetting coarsening, roughening, roughingdehydrating, drying, parching, searing slangto defeat by a large marginI can't believe I bet on a football team that ended up getting waxed 45-0 annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, running circles around(or running rings around), wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberthe commitment of the young volunteers to the cause seems to wax and wane accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to eventually have as a state or qualitywaxed poetic whenever he wrote to his girlfriend becoming, coming, getting, going, growing, running, turning altering, changing, metamorphosing, modifying, mutating, transfiguring, transforming, transmuting abiding, being, continuing, lingering, remaining, staying |