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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



... Dalesman's Litany Cambodunum Telling the Bees The Two Lamplighters Our Beck Lord George Jenny Storm The New Englishman The Bells of Kirkby Overblow The gardener and the Robin Lile Doad His last Sail One Year Older The Hungry Forties The Flowers of Knaresborough Forest The Miller by the Shore The Bride's Homecoming The Artist Marra to Bonney Mary Mecca The Local Preacher The Courting Gate Fieldfares A Song of the ...
— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman
... place, Yet I will overgoe your cunning heads, If Williams and my sister hold their tongues. My neighbours holdes not me in least suspect, Weighing of my former conversation. Were Beeches boy well conveid awaie, Ide hope to overblow this stormie day. ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen


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