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Adjective: waxed  wakst
  1. Treated with wax
    "waxed floors"; "waxed moustache"
Verb: wax  waks
  1. Cover with wax
    "wax the car"
     
  2. Go up or advance
    "Sales were waxing after prices were lowered";
    - mount, climb, rise
     
  3. Increase in phase
    "the moon is waxing";
    - full
     
  4. Say or write, esp. for a long time about a particular topic
    "I've probably waxed on about them for hours"; "He waxed lyrical about the success"
     
  5. Remove hair from part of the body by coating the skin with wax that is then pulled off with the hair
    "She decided to wax her legs before the beach vacation"

Type of: cover, increase

Antonym: unwaxed

Encyclopedia: Waxed

Wax, animal and vegetable