overblow
English
Verb
overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)
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)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- (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.
- 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
- if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
- 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
- (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.
- 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
- (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.
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