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overwax

overwax verb: to apply too much wax to.

Verb

overwax (third-person singular simple present overwaxes, present participle overwaxing, simple past and past participle overwaxed)

  1. (transitive) To apply too much wax to.
    • an overwaxed floor
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.

Forms of overwax

third-person singular presentoverwaxes
present participleoverwaxing
past participleoverwaxed
pastoverwaxed

Origin of overwax

From over- + wax.

Questions about overwax

What does overwax mean?
Overwax means to apply too much wax to.
What part of speech is overwax?
Overwax is a verb.
What is the past tense of overwax?
The past tense of overwax is overwaxed.

Words near overwax in the dictionary

  1. overwatching
  2. overwater
  3. overwatered
  4. overwatering
  5. overwaters
  6. overwax
  7. overwaxed
  8. overwaxes
  9. overwaxing
  10. overweak
  11. overwealth

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