Run and Wax

Run

Run verb - To eventually have as a state or quality.

Usage example: the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children

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Wax and run are semantically related In some cases you can use "Wax" instead a verb "Run".

Nearby Word: running

Wax verb - To eventually have as a state or quality.

Usage example: waxed poetic whenever he wrote to his girlfriend

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Run and wax are semantically related in fuller topic. Sometimes you can use "Run" instead a verb "Wax".

Nearby Words: waxed, waxy, waxing, waxen, waxwork

car	run car	wax car
minutes	run minutes	wax minutes

When we first run into them, they're a bunch of creepy spiders who spin wax instead of webs.

Source: Adaptive Ability
In contrast to Joe in the original Mystery of the Wax Museum, who burned the museum down because they had run completely out of money, Matthew is making a steady profit off of Jarrod's museum.

Source: Film / House of Wax (1953)
The shapes formed in wax from a candles run off can also be read for divinatory meaning.

Source: Whatevermancy

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