overblow

Verb

Verb Forms: overblew, overblown, overblowing, overblows

• To exaggerate or assign undue importance to something.
• To cover with blossoms or flowers.
• To blow over or across.
• To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
• To exaggerate the significance of something.
• To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
• Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
• Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
• To blow over; pass over; pass away.

Examples

• Don’t overblow the difficulty of finding a seven-letter word; sometimes they just appear.
• The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.