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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

wax nostalgic

And Vladimir Putin is a former KGB colonel who now waxes nostalgic for the good old days.

I find the word 'wax' has a meaning which says 'become bigger and bigger', but I still feel weird and can't comprehend this sentence utterly. Could you tell me what it means here?
  

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com/us/definition/american_english/wax Begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner

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This is sense 2.1.2 at http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/wax

Begin to speak or write about something in the specified manner
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Got it, thank you so much!

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