GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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1.       
   Overblow , v. i.
   To blow over, or be subdued. [R.]
   Spenser.
   
   1913 Webster
   (Mus.) 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.
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2.       
   Overblow, v. t.
   To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
   1913 Webster
   When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.
   Waller.
   
   1913 Webster
   To ascribe an unwarranted importance to.
   PJC
   (Music) To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones.
   PJC