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 or grow too rapindly or too much.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

over- +‎ wax

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