wax

wax is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
2. intransitive verb. To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
3. noun. A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
4. noun. Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
5. noun. Cerumen, or earwax.
6. noun. A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
7. noun. A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
8. noun. A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
9. noun. A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
10. noun. A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
11. noun. Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
12. transitive verb. To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
13. noun. any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
14. verb. go up or advance

    "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

    Synonyms: climb, mount, rise

15. verb. increase in phase

    "the moon is waxing"

    Synonyms: full

16. verb. cover with wax

    "wax the car"

Synonyms

climb, mount, rise, full

Common word forms

waxed, waxen, waxer, waxes, waxing, waxable

Words from these letters

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