Synonym: burnish, develop, enlarge, flourish, furbish, gain, glaze, grow, heighten, increase, intensify, polish, rise, shine, sprout, swell. Similar words: waxing. Meaning: [wæks] n. any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water. v. 1. cover with wax 2. go up or advance 3. increase in phase.
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91. There were the eternal school smells of chalk dust, wax crayons, cedar shavings, damp wool, and warm children.
92. What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders. Jerry Seinfeld
93. There are two games left for the whole ball of wax.
94. Wax is sprayed on the apples to give them more luster.
95. Is it present constantly, does the sensation wax and wane, or does it come in acute attacks?
96. Through it, Donna could see the first of many wax tableaux showing famous film stars.
97. Since the low point in the mid-1970s, the Chiefs' influence has begun to wax once more.
98. Styling wax and extra strong mousse were used for this look.
99. Will Ruby Wax lyrical about her smear test and will Oliver Reed flash his wedding tackle?
100. The wax molecules carry no charge and repel water molecules[sentencedict .com], which are charged.
101. How about the crinkling of Cellophane or the more muted wax paper?
102. There was only one candle in place, stuck upright like a pale wax finger, and this had never been lit.
103. A thin cake of wax covered the jam to seal it.
104. Created by Geno Ventti Long, dramatic wig has been dressed with wax to accentuate curl.
105. For home waxing, Immac Warm Wax, £7.99, whisks away hair with minimum fuss.
106. She wore a well-used wax jacket over tight breeches and riding top boots.
107. This makes it harder to wax indignant at the ideas being canvassed in Washington.
108. When squirreling away the wax seals, Colley had thrown the parchments into the property wagon as so much litter.
109. School, their old home, smelled of powerful floor wax and disinfectant, the smell of patriotism.
110. When straight-talking Ruby Wax sells a car to other women, she sells it as a glorified shopping trolley.
111. And she favoured large hats, like the one she had on now, with wax flowers decorating it.
112. Byzantine Follis I enclose wax impressions and a rubbing of what I think to be a coin.
113. The biopsy specimens were fixed in Carnoy's fixative overnight and embedded in paraffin wax.
114. Baldness is not only sexy, it is aerodynamic. Hot wax your head for maximum performance.
115. They were married in a room smelling of varnish and floor wax, and official documents growing musty in the filing cabinets.
116. The sticky buns, wrapped in two wax papers, went into his coat pocket.
117. The wick lay almost flat in a perilously small amount of wax.
118. Only don't wax sentimental over their hospitality, just thinking of it gives me indigestion.
119. Huy grabbed one of the torches and brought it closer, careless of the wax dripping on to the dead skin.
120. Likewise a bronze sculpture is considered an outgrowth of the wax or plaster model from which it is cast.
More similar words: waxing.