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Synonyms and Antonyms of waxing
- waxing a surfboard
- I can't believe I bet on a football team that ended up getting waxed 45-0
annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking [slang], smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, whipping, whomping, whopping (or whapping), whupping
beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worsting
crushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
breaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering
Synonyms and Antonyms of waxing
- the commitment of the young volunteers to the cause seems to wax and wane
- waxed poetic whenever he wrote to his girlfriend
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