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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1. Jonathan Zimmerman:

   What happened to Amy Wax can happen to you. There is nothing stopping anyone from coming after you. If you say something deemed unacceptable, with public shaming and unreasoned condemnation, once you are labeled a hater, a xenophobe, a racist, or a white supremacist, that label will stick and nothing else will matter in this internet age. is there any achievement gap among law students?

2. Sherry Ross:

   If you use a razor, laser, or wax your pubic hair, make sure the skin is always kept clean before and afterremoving the hair, loofah the skin after to help prevent acne and ingrown hairs during the regrowth process.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Miguel de Cervantes:

   My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.