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

• 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

• verb
  1. To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
  2. 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.
  3. To defeat utterly.
  4. To kill, especially to murder a person.
  5. (usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
  6. To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
  7. To grow.
  8. (of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
  9. (of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
• noun
  1. The action of the verb to wax.
  2. A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.
  3. A recording intended for a phonograph.

• 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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