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Antonyms for wax

Grammar : Verb
Spell : waks
Phonetic Transcription : wæks


Definition of wax

Origin :
  • "substance made by bees," Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wakhsan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German wahs, Old Norse vax, Dutch was, German Wachs); cognate with Old Church Slavonic vasku, Lithuanian vaškas, Polish wosk, Russian vosk "wax" (but these may be from Germanic). Waxworks "exhibition of wax figures representing famous or notorious persons" first recorded 1796.
  • verb become large, fuller
Example sentences :
  • It ain't made of wax nor anything else that folks ever made.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • Marriott was lighting the six wax candles on the dressing-table.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • In those days men fastened their letters and receipts and bills with wax.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • While the wax was soft they stamped their names in it with a metal seal.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • It was a pleasant, peaceful sitting-room, as neat as wax in every part.
  • Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Sink me, but I wax philosophical, which is the old refuge of the ruined man.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The water which serves to melt and separate the wax is far from being useless.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • They are as perfect as though moulded and shaped out of wax.
  • Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
  • The bureau contained paper, wax, and all the other appliances of writing.
  • Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper

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