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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Overblow

· O·ver·blow · IPA
01 v. i. To blow over, or be subdued.
  1. 1.
    To blow over, or be subdued.[R.]
  2. 2.
    To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.(Mus.)
02 v. t. To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
  1. 1.
    To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
    “When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.” — Waller.
  2. 2.
    To ascribe an unwarranted importance to.
  3. 3.
    To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones.(Music)