overblow

1. (transitive) To blow over or across.transitive

2. (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.transitive

3. (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.Examples: "if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it"transitive

4. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.Examples: "The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing."transitive

5. (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.Examples: "The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth."intransitive

6. (intransitive, nautical, archaic) Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.Examples: "Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen."archaicintransitive