Definition of "overblow"

overblow¹

verb
third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown
1. (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

overblow²

verb
third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown
1. (transitive) To blow over or across.
2. (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
3. (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
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  if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
  2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
4. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
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  The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.
  1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
5. (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
6. (intransitive, nautical, archaic) Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
  Quotations
  Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 151
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
  Quotations
  But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]

Definition of "overblow"

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