overblow

About 0.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cover with blossoms or flowers.
2. verb To blow over or across.
3. verb To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
4. verb To exaggerate the significance of something.
5. verb To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
6. verb Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.

   The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.

7. verb Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
8. verb To blow over; pass over; pass away.

Similar words

overbloom outbloom overflower outblossom outblow out-blossom overbrim overswell overlard outblush

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