| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ verb
Etymology: Middle English overblowen, from over (I) + blowen to blow
transitive verb
1. : to dissipate by or as if by wind : blow away
2. : to cover (as with snow) by blowing or being blown
3. : to blow (a pipe or other wind instrument) so vigorously as to evoke undesirable overtones that sometimes completely mask the fundamental tone
4. : to continue to blow in a converter after the impurities have been removed (as carbon from iron or sulfur from copper) completely or below a proper percentage
5.
a. : distend , swell
whom stout and high living have much overblow — Donagh MacDonagh
b. : to puff up to inflated proportions : give a false pathos or bombastic or flamboyant quality to
would have been easy to overblow the story — C.W.Morton
intransitive verb
1. of the wind , archaic : to blow too hard to allow light sails (as topsails) to be carried
2. : to force wind into a wind musical instrument in such a way as to change its pitch typically producing an overtone instead of its fundamental tone