Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To increase greatly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To apply too much
wax to. - verb obsolete, intransitive To
wax orgrow too rapindly or too much.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
over- + wax
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