(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
Wax is a solid, slightly shiny substance made of fat or oil which is used to make candles and polish. It melts when it is heated.
There were coloured candles which had spread pools of ~ on the furniture...
She loved the scent in the house of ~ polish.
N-MASS
2.
If you ~ a surface, you put a thin layer of ~ onto it, especially in order to polish it.
We’d have long talks while she helped me ~ the floor.
VERB: V n
3.
If you have your legs ~ed, you have the hair removed from your legs by having ~ put on them and then pulled off quickly.
She has just had her legs ~ed at the local beauty parlour...
She could go shopping, and ~ her legs.
VERB: have n V-ed, V n
4.
Wax is the sticky yellow substance found in your ears.
N-UNCOUNT
5.
If you say that someone, for example, ~es lyrical or ~es indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
He ~ed lyrical about the skills and commitment of his employees...
My mother ~ed eloquent on the theme of wifely duty.
VERB: V adj, V adj
6.
If something ~es and wanes, it first increases and then decreases over a period of time.
Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that ~ed and waned.
PHRASE: Vs inflect