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wax
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wax as in:  the moon is waxing

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    The waxing moon rose higher and higher and the wind grew loud and cold.  (source)
    waxing = gradually enlarging
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    My imagination, sternly checked by the exigencies of my profession, waxed secretly to colossal force.  (source)
    waxed = gradually increased
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    He sees the hair that grows on her legs between waxings, the black roots that emerge between appointments at the salon, and in these moments, these glimpses, he believes he has known no greater intimacy.†  (source)
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    Doors open and close, the sound of its tiny, immense rage waxes and wanes.†  (source)
    waxes = gradually increases
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    The happy and astonished mother strained him to her breast and exclaimed— "It waxeth late—may it please your Majesty to rise?"†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It waxeth" in older English, today we say "It waxes."
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    Jobless, we sat outside at sidewalk cafes ... as rush hour waxed and waned around us.  (source)
    waxed = gradually increased
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    In the next hour I got the two women waiting to their manicures, ordered lunch for Lola, did the receipts from the day before, and between two eyebrow waxings and an underarm job I heard every gory detail about Talinga's most recent disastrous blind date.†  (source)
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    He said to Moses, Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them.  (source)
    wax = increase
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    Stuart's eyes hang on mine while Mother waxes on about the heat, how Carlton's finally met "the one."†  (source)
    waxes = gradually increases
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    Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.†  (source)
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    The intensity of her insanity waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.†  (source)
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    And well ought Our Lord be signified to an hart, for the hart when he is old he waxeth young again in his white skin.†  (source)
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    Its light waxes and wanes.†  (source)
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common meaning

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    Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H. "Hurry up, boy!" shouted Uncle Vernon from the kitchen.  (source)
    wax = a soft or moldable, oily substance
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    He scraped from it a sliver as thin as a hair, wrapped it in wax, and added it to the pan in which the lead had melted.  (source)
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    Matthewson waxed jubilant.  (source)
    waxed = spoke
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    She gathers eggshells, twists up wax paper.†  (source)
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    Victor reaches into a nearby bag and produces a piece of dried sausage wrapped in waxed paper.†  (source)
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    Anyway, enough waxing philosophical.†  (source)
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    She climbs onto a stool and watches me wrap the sandwiches in wax paper.†  (source)
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    Each footfall made a shrill squeak on the waxed marble floor, standing out amid the rumble of sensible business footwear.†  (source)
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    So am I. We looked at each other under the light of a waxing crescent moon, and I almost kissed her right then, but she turned away a moment too soon and said something that sort of threw me.†  (source)
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    All homemade, wrapped in wax paper.†  (source)
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    He was wearing a fancy suit and his eyebrow had been waxed so it looked as shiny as his eyes.†  (source)
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    The guys doing extra duty—push-ups, stripping and waxing the floor—looked like fools.†  (source)
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    I bring em out, undo the wax paper I got em in so they don't turn out bent.†  (source)
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