What does "overblow" mean?

To cover with blossoms or flowers.

What is a synonym for "overblow"?

Common synonyms include: moil, moil.

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To cover with blossoms or flowers. transitive
2
To blow over or across. transitive
3
To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind. transitive
4
To exaggerate the significance of something. transitive
"if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it"
5
To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual. transitive
"The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing."

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6
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."
7
Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail. archaic, intransitive
"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."
8
To blow over; pass over; pass away. intransitive, obsolete
"But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?"