English Dictionary

overblow

verb

(intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away. / (intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence. / (transitive) To blow over or across.

The wind began to overblow, causing the trees to sway violently.

意味（1）

(intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.

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

意味（2）

(intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence.

意味（3）

(transitive) To blow over or across.

意味（4）

(transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.

意味（5）

(transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.

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

意味（6）

(transitive, music) 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.

意味（7）

(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.