Synonyms for wax
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1. waxverb

   any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water

   Antonyms:
   wane

2. waxverb

   cover with wax

   "wax the car"

   Synonyms:
   rise, mount, climb, full

   Antonyms:
   wane

3. wax, mount, climb, riseverb

   go up or advance

   "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

   Synonyms:
   resurrect, rise, stand up, climb up, uprise, put on, climb on, heighten, go up, rebel, surface, lift, arise, spring up, come up, grow, originate, mount up, ride, ascend, prove, develop, climb, bestride, full, get on, get up, hop on, jump on, move up, turn out, jump, rear, mount, rise up

   Antonyms:
   wane

4. wax, fullverb

   increase in phase

   "the moon is waxing"

   Synonyms:
   rise, mount, climb, full

   Antonyms:
   wane

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1. waxverb

   Synonyms:
   cere, smear with wax

2. waxverb

   Synonyms:
   increase (as the moon)

3. waxverb

   Synonyms:
   grow, become, come to be, get to be

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1. waxnoun

   Synonyms:
   beeswax, spermaceti, adipocere (grave wax), ozocerite, mineral wax

   Associated words:
   cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin

2. waxverb

   Synonyms:
   cere, increase, grow, develop, become larger

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1. List of paraphrases for "wax":

   cera, wax-burning, candelilla, beeswax, candle, waxy, paraffin

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1. List of known nicknames for "Wax":

   Michael Jones, 왁스, Cho Heari, Cho Hye Ri

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How to use wax in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Franklin:

   If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

2. Theodore Rugers:

   Once again, Amy Wax has, through Amy Wax thoroughly anti-intellectual and racist comments denigrating Asian immigrants, underscored a fundamental tension around harmful speech at American universities, like all racist generalizations, Wax's recent comments inflict harm by perpetuating stereotypes and placing differential burdens on Asian students, faculty, and staff to carry the weight of this vitriol and bias.

3. Patrick Mirocha:

   If Kamala HarrisHarris were on the debate stage( with Donald Trump), I think Kamala HarrisHarris'd wax the floor with Donald Trump. Kamala HarrisHarris would just dominate Donald Trump, i watched the Barr confirmation, the( Brett) Kavanaugh confirmation. You can tell Kamala HarrisHarris's a prosecutor. Kamala HarrisHarris's methodical. If you sit back and just kind of listen, really listen, you can tell Kamala HarrisHarris's two steps ahead of them in her questioning.

4. Glenn Loury:

   I thought that Amy's comments, in places, were outrageous, i said as much during the interview what Amy Wax said about the Asians could have been said, and was said, about the Jews not so long ago. Today we call that antisemitism.

5. John Steinbeck:

   A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.