wax down
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
verb
To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
verb
To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
verb
To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
verb
To paste into place using wax.
Example Sentences
- "We're waxin' down our surfboards / We can't wait for June"
- "So the next afternoon we weren't doing anything and it was fairly warm, we got rags and waxed down his plane."
- "She waxed down the floor and found a small table and matching chair at Goodwill."
- "Then, after shelling out significant cash on sufficient 44-gallon drums of polyester and epoxy resin and massive rolls of specific density fibreglass material, we proceeded to wax down and lay up the hull."
- "Looking graceful and not falling can be difficult when you're asked to wax down your skis and slide over an icy surface, or while dodging mogul mice and then stopping gracefully at the end of the run."
- "If there was even one string out of place on one of her dish towels, he would have her cut it up in rags to wax down his precious candy-apple red Cadillac Coupe de Ville."