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Another word for wax

wax Synonyms

wax

n.

Waxes include: paraffin, resin, spermaceti, lanolin, petrolatum, petroleum jelly, candelilla, oxocerite, beeswax, honeycomb, sealing wax, earwax, cerumen, carnauba, automobile wax, floor wax, furniture polish.

wax Synonyms

wax

v.

To increase
become larger, swell, grow full; see grow 1.
To apply wax
polish, smooth, shine; see spread 4.

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Another word for wax

verb

To make or become greater or larger:
aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge. (Informal) beef up. See increase
To come to be:
become, come, get, grow, turn (out). See change

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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.
A copper plate having been coated with wax, outline and ornament are cut into the wax, the lettering is impressed with type, and the intaglio thus produced is electrotyped.

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