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  • verb transitive To wax again.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ wax

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Examples

  • I have to leave, because the janitors want to strip and rewax the floors, but could go on for ages.

    Dang. Angry Professor 2008

  • Once they have been waxed, clean them by removing the wax with a manufacturer-recommended or commercial remover or with mineral spirits; then rewax.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Once they have been waxed, clean them by removing the wax with a manufacturer-recommended or commercial remover or with mineral spirits; then rewax.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Once they have been waxed, clean them by removing the wax with a manufacturer-recommended or commercial remover or with mineral spirits; then rewax.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Once they have been waxed, clean them by removing the wax with a manufacturer-recommended or commercial remover or with mineral spirits; then rewax.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Now is the time to scrub floors, if pine, with hot borax suds, and to rewax or varnish hardwood floors if they require it.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • Got a can of wax stripper, and we spent the next few hours stripping the old wax from the kitchen and dining room linoleum, and rewax, then buffing that when it was dry.

    unknown title 2009

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