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Overblow vs Overbrow - What's the difference?

overblow | overbrow |

As verbs the difference between overblow and overbrow

is that overblow is to cover with blossoms or flowers or overblow can be (obsolete) to blow over; pass over; pass away while overbrow is (poetic|transitive) to hang over like a brow; to impend over.

overblow

English

Etymology 1

From .

Verb

  • To cover with blossoms or flowers.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) overblowen, equivalent to .

    Verb

  • (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
    • if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
  • (music) To blow a wind instrument 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 .

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    overbrow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
    • (Longfellow)
    Did with a huge projection overbrow / Large space beneath. — Wordsworth.
    (Webster 1913)