Overblow

Quick meaning: Overblow is a verb meaning (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

Meaning

(transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

More Meanings

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.
4. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
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.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.

Example Sentences

The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.

if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it

The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.

But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?

Word Forms

• overblows
• overblowing
• overblew
• overblown

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overbloom, outbloom, overflower, outblossom, outblow, out-blossom.

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