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Waxing

noun

The application of wax to a surface.

A gradual increase in magnitude or extent. Antonym: waning.

adjective

(of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon increases. Antonym: waning.

Wax

verb

(past & past part. waxed; pres. part. waxing)

Cover with wax.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, mount, rise. Antonym: wane.

Increase in phase. Synonym: full. Antonym: wane.

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"Waxing" Quotes from Famous Books

... evening shone the waxing moon As brightly as before; The deer upon the grassy mead Was seen again ...

— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant

... wakeneth all my care; Now the trees are waxing bare; Oft my sighs my grief declare[13] When it comes into my thought Of this world's joy, how it goes ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... The conversation went on, waxing technical at times, and ended with an invitation to look into the ship. Then the spaceman, possibly carried away by all the interest Fry was showing, offered ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... still through all longing I young in Love's dealings, Never called it a pain: though, the battle passed over, The council determined, back again came my craving: I knew not the pain, but I knew all the pleasure, When now, as the clouds o'er my fortune were parting, I felt myself waxing in might and in wisdom; And no city welcomed the Freed and the Freer, And no mighty army fell back before rumour Of Pharamond's coming, but her heart bid me thither, And the blithest and kindest of kingfolk ye knew me. Then came the high ...

— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris

... teeth, and chattered at them like monkeys. The nearer they came the more angry and furious did the prairie-dogs become, until Dick Varley almost fell off his horse with suppressed laughter. They let the hunters come close up, waxing louder and louder in their wrath; but the instant a hand was raised to throw a stone or point a gun, a thousand little heads dived into a thousand holes, and a thousand little tails wriggled for an instant in the air—then a ...

— The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies • Robert Michael Ballantyne

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