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overblow.

To cover with blossoms or flowers.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To cover with blossoms or flowers.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow English overblow From over- + blow (“to flower, bloom”).

verb
  1. To blow over or across.

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

    transitive
  3. To exaggerate the significance of something.

    transitive
  4. To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.

    transitive
  5. Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.

    intransitive
    The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.
  6. Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.

    archaic · intransitive
  7. To blow over; pass over; pass away.

    intransitive · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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

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