How to pronounce wax

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What wax means

verb

Most people know wax in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To grow fuller night by night, as the moon does

In a sentence: Each night the moon seemed to wax a little more, until it was round and full.

Where it comes from: This wax comes from the Old English weaxan, meaning to grow. The wax in candles is a different word.

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