verb
Meaning 1
To cover with blossoms or flowers.
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Usage: transitive
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overblow
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verb
Meaning 2
To blow over or across.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 3
To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 4
To exaggerate the significance of something.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
Meaning 6
Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.
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verb
Meaning 7
Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 8
To blow over; pass over; pass away.
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *bhel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh1- Proto-Indo-European *bhleh1-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow English overblow From over- + blow (“to flower, bloom”).
From Middle English overblowen, equivalent to over- + blow.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: ути́хнуть (utíxnutʹ) — to blow over, pass away