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overblow
CIDE DICTIONARY
overblow, v. i.
- To blow over, or be subdued. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
overblow, v. t.
- To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. [1913 Webster]"When this cloud of sorrow's overblown." [1913 Webster]
- To ascribe an unwarranted importance to. [PJC]
- To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones. [PJC]
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