waxing
The word “waxing” has 2 syllables: wax-ing
It's pronounced as /ˈwæksɪŋ/
What is synonym and antonym for waxing?
In the thesaurus, “waxing” has 299 synonyms and 71 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for waxing along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for waxing
- accelerating
- acceleration
- access
- accession
- accretion
- accrual
- accumulating
- accumulation
- addition
- advance
- advancement
- aggrandizement
- altering
- ambush
- amplifying
- animate
- annihilating
- annihilation
- appreciating
- ascent
- augmentation
- augmenting
- ballooning
- bathing
- beating
- beating the pants off
- becoming
- beefing up
- besting
- bettering
- blow
- blowing away
- blowing up
- bombing
- booming
- boost
- bourgeoning
- break
- breakdown
- breaking
- breakthrough
- broadening
- budding
- building up
- buildup
- bulking
- burgeoning
- burying
- capping
- changing
- check
- climb
- climbing
- clobbering
- collapse
- comedown
- coming
- confusion
- conquering
- conquest
- count
- creaming
- crescendoing
- crescent
- crescive
- cresting
- crop
- crushing
- crushing defeat
- cultivation
- cumulation
- debacle
- defeasance
- destroying
- destruction
- developing
- development
- dilating
- disaster
- discomfiture
- dispatching
- distending
- distention
- doing in
- doubling
- dousing
- downthrow
- dowsing
- drenching
- drubbing
- dusting
- eating alive
- eclipsing
- elaboration
- embarrassment
- enlargement
- enlarging
- escalating
- escalation
- evolution
- evolvement
- exaggeration
- exceeding
- excelling
- expanding
- expansion
- extension
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- finishing
- flattening
- fleshing out
- flight
- flourishing
- flowering
- fructifying
- gain
- gaining
- germinating
- germination
- getting
- getting big
- going
- greasing
- growing
- growth
- heightening
- hiding
- hike
- hurdling
- improvement
- incorporation
- increase
- increasing
- increment
- increscent
- inflating
- inflation
- insuccess
- intensification
- intensifying
- jumping
- killing
- knocking off
- knocking over
- ko
- lacing
- licking
- living
- loss
- lubricating
- markup
- massacre
- mastering
- mastery
- maturation
- maturing
- maximization
- merger
- metamorphosing
- modifying
- mounting
- multiplication
- multiplying
- mushrooming
- mutating
- nonsuccess
- nosing out
- oiling
- optimization
- outdistancing
- outdoing
- outfighting
- outshining
- outstripping
- overbearing
- overcoming
- overmatching
- overpowering
- overthrow
- overthrowing
- overtopping
- overwhelming
- paddling
- pasting
- peaking
- piling up
- pipping
- produce
- production
- progress
- proliferating
- proliferation
- promotion
- prosperity
- pullulating
- raise
- rebuff
- redoubling
- repulse
- retreat
- reverse
- rise
- rising
- rocketing
- rolling up
- romp
- rout
- routing
- ruin
- running
- running circles around
- running rings around
- scalping
- scoring
- setback
- shambles
- shellacking
- shutout
- sinking
- skinning
- skunking
- skyrocketing
- slaughter
- slaughtering
- slicking
- smoking
- smothering
- snowballing
- snowing under
- soaking
- sousing
- spread
- spreading
- sprouting
- stacking up
- step-up
- stretching
- subduing
- subjugating
- subjugation
- succeeding
- success
- surge
- surging
- surmounting
- surpassing
- sweeping
- swell
- swelling
- taking
- thickening
- thrashing
- thriving
- throwing
- topping
- transcending
- transfiguring
- transforming
- transmuting
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- tromping
- trouncing
- turning
- unfolding
- up
- upending
- upgrade
- upping
- upset
- upsetting
- upsurge
- upswing
- upturn
- vanquishing
- vanquishment
- vegetation
- viable
- walkover
- walloping
- washing
- washout
- watering
- wetting
- whaling
- whapping
- whipping
- whitewashing
- whomping
- whopping
- whupping
- widening
- wiping the floor with
- wiping the ground with
- worsting
Antonyms for waxing
- abatement
- abiding
- abridgment
- accomplishment
- achievement
- attainment
- being
- boon
- building
- calm
- coarsening
- compression
- construction
- continuing
- contracting
- creation
- dead
- decline
- decrease
- decreasing
- deduction
- dehydrating
- depletion
- destruction
- diminishing
- diminishment
- drop
- drying
- dwindling
- dying
- failing
- failure
- fall
- forfeit
- good fortune
- halt
- hindrance
- languishing
- lessening
- lingering
- loss
- mastery
- miracle
- order
- organization
- parching
- receding
- reduction
- remaining
- rise
- roughening
- roughing
- searing
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slump
- stagnation
- staying
- stop
- subtraction
- success
- surrender
- triumph
- underdevelopment
- victory
- waning
- win
- withering
- wonder
- worsening
- yielding
Meanings of waxing
- verb
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- To defeat utterly.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To grow.
- (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
- noun
- The action of the verb to wax.
- A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
- A recording intended for a phonograph.
Example Sentences
- She is waxing the floors to make them shine.
- The artist is waxing the statue before adding the final details.
- They are waxing their surfboards for the upcoming competition.
- The moon is waxing, slowly growing fuller each night.
- He is waxing poetic about the beauty of the sunset.
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- profitable
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- promising
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- providential
- pull
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- pulling round
- pulling through
- purchase
- pursuing
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- rallying
- reaching
- reacquiring
- realization
- realizing
- reaping
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- recapturing
- receipt
- receiving
- reception
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lacing
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