OVERBLOW

Etymology 1

Verb

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

(transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

Etymology 2

Verb

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

(intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.

(intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence.

(transitive) To blow over or across.

(transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.

(transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.

(transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.

(intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.

Anagrams

• blow over, bowl over

Source: Wiktionary


O`ver*blow", v. i.

1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] Spenser.

2. (Mus.)

Definition: To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

O`ver*blow", v. t.

Definition: To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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