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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



... like 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 ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift


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