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Overblown   /ˌoʊvərblˈoʊn/   Listen
adjective
overblown  adj.  
1.
Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery.
2.
Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric.


verb
Overblow  v. t.  (past overblew; past part. overblown; pres. part. overblowing)  
1.
To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. "When this cloud of sorrow's overblown."
2.
To ascribe an unwarranted importance to.
3.
(Music) To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones.


Overblow  v. i.  (past overblew; past part. overblown; pres. part. overblowing)  
1.
To blow over, or be subdued. (R.)
2.
(Mus.) 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.





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"Overblown" Quotes from Famous Books



... torture-proof, and on the crust Of one kind word, though as a pittance thrown, I'd live for weeks! My tears I would disown And pray, contented with my discontent, As hermits pray when storms are overblown. ...
— A Lover's Litanies • Eric Mackay
... come. No sound was to be heard; but he knew that all around him life was about to awaken in common noises, hoarse voices, sleepy prayers. Shrinking from that life he turned towards the wall, making a cowl of the blanket and staring at the great overblown scarlet flowers of the tattered wallpaper. He tried to warm his perishing joy in their scarlet glow, imagining a roseway from where he lay upwards to heaven all strewn with scarlet flowers. Weary! Weary! He too was ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... which he had always an eye on. He knew there was that in it which no scientific apparatus that could be put in operation then, on so short a notice, and when science was so feebly aided, would be able to divert or conduct entirely. He knew that so fearful a war-cloud would have to burst, and get overblown, before any chance for those peace operations, those operations of a solid and lasting peace, which he was bent on, could be had—before any space on the earth could be found broad enough for his Novum Organum to get to work on, before ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon


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