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Waxing
/ˈwæksɪŋ/
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
📖 Definitions of "Waxing"
- 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.
- 1
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- 2
To grow.
- 3
(of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
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(of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
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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.
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A recording intended for a phonograph.
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