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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rewax.

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Examples

  • Ordinarily the floor must he rewaxed about every three months, but a pound of wax, that will cover two ordinary sized rooms, costs only 50 cents, and it may be applied by anyone.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • The statue already was scheduled to be cleaned and rewaxed in a few weeks, but the vandalism won't make that task any easier, said Joanie Shields, coordinator of Adopt a Monument, an organization that preserves endangered sculptures.

    Kansas City Star: News 2011

  • My schoolfriend Nadija, who's of Ukrainian background, used to make the most beautiful eggs, painstakingly waxed and dipped and rewaxed and dipped.

    Word Wenches 2009

  • The statue already was scheduled to be cleaned and rewaxed in a few weeks, but the vandalism won’t make that task any easier, said Joanie Shields, coordinator of Adopt a Monument, an organization that preserves endangered sculptures.

    Kansas City Star: News 2011

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