Wax Synonyms and Antonyms

wăks
To increase
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. grow
  2. become larger
  3. become
  4. come
  5. swell
  6. get
  7. mount
  8. full
  9. grow full
  10. turn
  11. climb
  12. rise
Antonyms:
  1. shrink
  2. wane
To apply wax
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. increase
  2. polish
  3. grow
  4. aggrandize
  5. amplify
  6. augment
  7. boost
  8. build
  9. build up
  10. burgeon
  11. become larger
  12. enlarge
  13. escalate
  14. cere
  15. smooth
  16. expand
  17. extend
  18. cerumen
  19. coating
  20. magnify
  21. mount
  22. develop
  23. multiply
  24. proliferate
  25. grease
  26. rise
  27. run up
  28. snowball
  29. shine
  30. soar
  31. swell
  32. upsurge
  33. oil
  34. beef up
  35. paraffin
  36. simonize
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. ceraceous
  2. ceriferous
  3. ceruminous
  4. waxlike
  5. waxy
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. beeswax
  2. adipocere (grave wax)
  3. ambergris
  4. cerate
  5. cerograph
  6. cerographic
  7. cerographist
  8. ceroma
  9. ceromancy
  10. ceroplastic
  11. ceroplastics
  12. ceroplasty
  13. cerotene
  14. cerotic
  15. cerumen
  16. cetin
  17. encaustic
  18. inceration
  19. incerative
  20. mineral wax. associated words: cerography
  21. ozocerite
  22. spermaceti

Words Related to Wax

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wax Sentence Examples

  • A wax candle stood at each side of the minister's bent bald head with its gray temples.

  • If it fails to form a hard cake on cooling, a known weight of wax may be added and the product re-heated.

  • Industry consists chiefly in corn-milling and the preparation of wax and honey.

  • The principal products are rice, oil-seeds, lac, tussur silk, horns, hides, wax and a little iron.

  • The honey and the wax of the wild bee are collected by the natives.

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