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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



... behind a little group of fine yellow roses a little overblown, whose leaves would be scattered at the first ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
 
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... took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. 100 But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans ...
— The Tempest - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare
 
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... warrant could be served upon him, the old knight, by dint of the most eager entreaties, accompanied with marks of horror and despair, prevailed upon his son to withdraw himself from the kingdom until such time as the storm should be overblown. Had his heart been unengaged, he would have chose to travel, but at this period, when his whole soul was engrossed, and so violently agitated by his passion for Aurelia, nothing but the fear of seeing the old gentleman run distracted would have induced him to desist from ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
 
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... know it is usual, when the peril and alarm of the hour appears to be a little overblown, to think no more of the matter. But, for my part, I look back with horror on what we have escaped, and am full of anxiety with regard to the dangers which in my opinion are still to be apprehended both at home and abroad. This business has cast deep roots. Whether it is necessarily ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
 
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... Battle lower When ye come into your power, Durga grant the foes that dare you Bring no elephants to scare you; Nor the thunderous rush of horses, Nor the footmen's steel-fringed forces: But overblown by Policy's strong breath, Hide they in caverns from the ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
 
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