Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
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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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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