overblown
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- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈbloʊn/
- Archaic
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marchito
- I walked everywhere—past overblown trees, boarded-up shops, closed museums, and many places that were perfectly fine.
- overblown flowers
Examples
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Foxglove Wines in Paso Robles is a small winery that produces a Zin that's not overblown, with great Zinfandel characteristics.
Blog text (18) -
His belly button stuck out like the inside of an overblown balloon stem.
Fiction book (1991) -
In her crimson sweater, she reminded me of an overblown rose.
Fiction book (1990) -
I will say that it is quite enjoyable, and it has a normalcy that is missing in the current slate of overblown romantic comedies.
Blog text (22) -
Her legs, exposed to the knee, were bare, and one was badly ulcerated, a festering overblown rose above her ankle.
Fiction book (1995) -
And then, as she always did for Cam's arrangements, she added as many sprigs of purple clover as she could without making the lines of the flowers seem overblown.
Fiction book (2001) -
He had not understood how other men could stand by and watch these infant enemies swell and stretch and destroy the perfect bodies of their wives, decaying their former freshness, leaving them like overblown flowers that had lost their fragrance.
Fiction book (2002) -
The once vibrant bouquet now appeared to be nothing more than a collection of overblown flowers, their colors faded and dulled.
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As the summer progressed, the garden was full of overblown blooms that seemed to have lost their original beauty.
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She carefully removed the overblown petals from the wilted flower to make space for new growth.
Antonyms
How Bloomed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word overblown comes from over- meaning 'too much' and blown, an old way to say 'bloom' or 'flower'. So an overblown flower has passed its full bloom and looks faded.