overblow

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English

Etymology 1

From over- +‎ blow (“to flower, bloom”).

Verb

overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)

  1. (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overblowen, equivalent to over- +‎ blow.

Verb

overblow (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.
    • 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local:
      if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
  4. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
    • 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians:
      The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.
  5. (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
    The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.
  6. (intransitive, nautical, archaic) Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
    • 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. , volume I, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 151:
      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.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
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