wax
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Pronunciation[change]
Homophones[change]
- whacks (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun[change]

- (uncountable) Wax is a solid material made of animal fat.
Verb[change]
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- If you wax something, you put wax on it, for example, a car.
- She waxed her car to make the paint shine brightly.
- When something waxes, it means that it gets bigger and becomes more full.
- As the moon changes from a new moon to a full moon, it is said to be waxing.