expand vs wax

expand

verb
  • To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size. 

  • To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms. 

  • To feel generous or optimistic. 

  • To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value 

  • To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open. 

  • To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms. 

  • To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). 

  • To express (something) at length and/or in detail. 

  • To increase in extent, number, volume or scope. 

  • To speak or write at length or in detail. 

wax

verb
  • To grow. 

  • To defeat utterly. 

  • To move from low tide to high tide. 

  • To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. 

  • To kill, especially to murder a person. 

  • To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. 

  • To increasingly assume the specified characteristic. 

  • To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon. 

adj
  • Made of wax. 

noun
  • Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters. 

  • Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish. 

  • Beeswax. 

  • The process of growing. 

  • Earwax. 

  • A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it. 

  • A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil. 

  • The phonograph record format for music. 

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