wax2
• verb 1 (of the moon) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to increase in size. 2 literary become larger or stronger. 3 speak or write in the specified manner: they waxed lyrical about the old days. — ORIGIN Old English.
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