overblow

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Verb

overblow (overblows, present participle overblowing; past overblew, past participle overblown)

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

Verb

overblow (overblows, present participle overblowing; past overblew, past participle overblown)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

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

2. (intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence.
3. (transitive) To blow over or across.
4. (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
5. (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
6. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
   • 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians

     The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.

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.

Translations

• Russian: ути́хнуть

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