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🔍 To exaggerate 🎶 To blow too hard
to overblow

to overblow

8.2
To blow an instrument like a flute too hard so the note sounds shrill
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈbloʊ/
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  • If you overblow the flute, the note will sound shrill.

Examples

  • The teacher warned the students not to overblow their clarinets during the performance.

  • She always overblows on the trumpet.

  • He tends to overblow his achievements when talking to others.

  • Don't overblow the notes when you play!

  • If you overblow the flute, the note will sound shrill.

  • The teacher warned the students not to overblow their clarinets during the performance.

  • Don't overblow the notes when you play!

Synonyms

to blast
vsto overblow
66 4.1

To make a sudden very loud sound that startles people

is a too forceful breath on a wind instrument causing an unintended shrill sound
to blare
vsto overblow
50 3.8

To make a loud harsh sound that hurts your ears, like a siren

is caused by excessive breath on an instrument producing a shrill unintended tone

How Forceful

to pound
225 1.3
to overblow
8.2
blast
37 3.3
to blow
711 1.0
to puff
19 1.4

Surface Forms

overblow infinitive
overblowing present participle
overblows third person singular
overblew past
overblown past participle

Morphology

overblow = blow (transparent) = over + blow

Literal, regular combination of the productive prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessively' with 'blow' yields the sense 'to blow too hard.'

Etymology

Overblow is made from over- ('too much') and blow ('to move air'). So, to overblow a flute or clarinet is to blow too hard and make a thin, shrill sound.