Thesaurus / waxings
FEEDBACKsynonyms for waxings
synonyms for waxings
- boost
- development
- escalation
- expansion
- gain
- hike
- increment
- inflation
- merger
- raise
- rise
- surge
- upsurge
- upturn
- access
- accession
- accretion
- accrual
- accumulation
- aggrandizement
- augmentation
- breakthrough
- burgeoning
- cumulation
- elaboration
- enlargement
- exaggeration
- extension
- incorporation
- intensification
- markup
- maximization
- multiplication
- optimization
- spread
- step-up
- swell
- swelling
- upgrade
- waxing
- acceleration
- advance
- ascent
- boost
- climb
- growth
- hike
- increment
- inflation
- progress
- surge
- upsurge
- upswing
- upturn
- accession
- accretion
- addition
- advancement
- aggrandizement
- augmentation
- breakthrough
- distention
- doubling
- enlargement
- heightening
- intensification
- intensifying
- markup
- multiplication
- promotion
- raise
- step-up
- swell
- upgrade
- waxing
- piling up
- stacking up
- beating
- debacle
- disaster
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- romp
- shutout
- thrashing
- whipping
- comedown
- confusion
- flight
- hiding
- overthrow
- retreat
- ruin
- shambles
- trashing
- upset
- walkover
- washout
- waxing
- vanquishment
- annihilation
- beating
- collapse
- conquest
- drubbing
- failure
- fall
- licking
- massacre
- overthrow
- rout
- slaughter
- thrashing
- trouncing
- waxing
- whipping
- crushing defeat
- shellacking
- trashing
- vanquishment
- whitewashing
- whipping
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- destruction
- discomfiture
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whitewashing
- defeasance
- downthrow
- insuccess
- nonsuccess
- vanquishment
- annihilation
- beating
- conquest
- debacle
- drubbing
- rout
- trouncing
- whipping
- ambush
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- count
- destruction
- discomfiture
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- waxing
- whaling
- whitewashing
- defeasance
- downthrow
- insuccess
- nonsuccess
- vanquishment
- ambush
- annihilation
- beating
- blow
- break
- breakdown
- check
- collapse
- conquest
- count
- debacle
- defeasance
- destruction
- discomfiture
- downthrow
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- extermination
- failure
- fall
- insuccess
- killing
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- loss
- massacre
- mastery
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- rout
- ruin
- scalping
- setback
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- thrashing
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- triumph
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
- beating
- blow
- breakdown
- collapse
- debacle
- destruction
- drubbing
- embarrassment
- failure
- killing
- loss
- massacre
- rout
- setback
- thrashing
- triumph
- ambush
- annihilation
- break
- check
- conquest
- count
- discomfiture
- extermination
- fall
- KO
- lacing
- licking
- mastery
- paddling
- rebuff
- repulse
- reverse
- ruin
- scalping
- shellacking
- slaughter
- subjugation
- trap
- trashing
- trimming
- trouncing
- waxing
- whaling
- whipping
- whitewashing
- defeasance
- downthrow
- insuccess
- nonsuccess
- vanquishment
- advance
- advancement
- expansion
- gain
- hike
- improvement
- increase
- production
- prosperity
- rise
- success
- surge
- aggrandizement
- augmentation
- boost
- buildup
- crop
- cultivation
- enlargement
- evolution
- extension
- flowering
- germination
- maturation
- multiplication
- produce
- proliferation
- sprouting
- stretching
- swell
- thickening
- unfolding
- vegetation
- waxing
- widening
- beefing up
- evolvement
- fleshing out
- heightening
- maturing
- up
- upping
antonyms for waxings
MOST RELEVANT
- decline
- decrease
- failure
- hindrance
- stagnation
- deduction
- lessening
- reduction
- shrinkage
- subtraction
- drop
- fall
- slump
- worsening
- accomplishment
- achievement
- boon
- building
- construction
- creation
- forfeit
- good fortune
- loss
- rise
- success
- surrender
- victory
- win
- yielding
- decline
- decrease
- failure
- halt
- loss
- stagnation
- stop
- worsening
- abridgment
- compression
- destruction
- reduction
- abatement
- diminishment
- lessening
- underdevelopment
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How to use waxings in a sentence
I might tell of waxings and waning of love between us, but the whole was waning.
TONO BUNGAYH. G. WELLSIts waxings and wanings were marked by curious "trepidations" of brightness extremely perplexing to theory.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURYAGNES M. (AGNES MARY) CLERKE