overblow

Meanings

1. To cover with blossoms or flowers.

1. To blow over or across.
2. To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
3. To exaggerate the significance of something.
4. To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
5. Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
6. Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
7. To blow over; pass over; pass away.

Etymology

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