Overblow vs Overblown - What's the difference?
overblow | overblown |
To cover with blossoms or flowers.
(obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
*:But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown ?
To blow hard or with much violence.
To blow over or across.
To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
To exaggerate the significance of something.
* 2006 , Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local
(music) To blow a wind instrument hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
* 1909 , Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
As verbs the difference between overblow and overblown
is that overblow is to cover with blossoms or flowers or overblow can be (obsolete) to blow over; pass over; pass away while overblown is .As an adjective overblown is
of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.overblow
English
Etymology 1
From .Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) overblowen, equivalent to .Verb
- if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
- The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing .
Anagrams
* *overblown
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?