different between overblow vs overblown

English

Etymology 1

From over- +? blow (“to flower, bloom”).

Verb

overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)

1. (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overblowen, equivalent to over- +? blow.

Verb

overblow (third-person singular simple present overblows, present participle overblowing, simple past overblew, past participle overblown)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?

2. (intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence.
3. (transitive) To blow over or across.
4. (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
5. (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
6. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
   • 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians

     The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.

7. (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.

   The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.

Translations

Anagrams

• blow over, bowl over

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??n

Adjective

overblown (comparative more overblown, superlative most overblown)

1. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.

   They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?

Synonyms

• inflated

Translations

Verb

overblown

1. past participle of overblow

Anagrams

• blown over