overblow

verb

transitive verb

: to dissipate by or as if by wind : blow away

: to cover (as with snow) by blowing or being blown

: to blow (a pipe or other wind instrument) so vigorously as to evoke undesirable overtones that sometimes completely mask the fundamental tone

: 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

: distend, swell

whom stout and high living have much overblow

Donagh MacDonagh

: 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

of the wind, archaic : to blow too hard to allow light sails (as topsails) to be carried

: 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

单词	overblow
释义	overblow verb 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 Word History Etymology Middle English overblowen, from over entry 1 + blowen to blow
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overblow

verb

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