overblowing

Verb (1)

overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)

1. (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

Verb (2)

overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)

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.
   • if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
4. (transitive) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
   • The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
5. (intransitive) 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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