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Overblow   Listen
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.





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"Overblow" Quotes from Famous Books



... likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the foresail; but, making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizzen. The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten


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