英语词汇“wax and wane”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

wax and wane

释义

wax² /waks/

intransitive verb (pap (archaic) waxˈen, also (obsolete) pat pl (as in Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream II.1.56) and infinitive)

To grow or increase
(of the moon as it passes through its phases from new moon to full moon) to show, night by night, an increasing area of illuminated surface, opp to wane
To pass into another state, become, as in wax lyrical

ORIGIN: OE weaxan; ON vaxa, Ger wachsen, related to L augēre to increase, Gr auxanein

wax and wane

To increase and decrease in alternating sequence

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