overblowv.¹

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈbləʊ/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈbloʊ/

Inflections: Past tense overblew; past participle overblown;

Forms: see over- prefix and blow v.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, blow v.¹

Etymology: < over- prefix + blow v.¹In sense 6b after German (reflexive) überblasen (1844 in the passage translated in quot. 1852¹ at sense 6b).

†1. transitive. To blow (something) off or away. Also figurative: to dispel, drive out or away (troubles, fears, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow out, away, or apart

overblowa1387

ventilatea1440

blast1548

difflate1590

exsufflate1666

whuffle1906

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 95 Al þe creem and fatnesse of þat mylke..schulde be overblowe and i-take awey.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 119 Of sterne Katoun þe fame is over-blowe, And marked [MS maked] now in lettres bot a fewe.

a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 75 (MED) The pot ys esy for to kepe, When the fat ys over blowe.

a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 63 (MED) Then clowdes of darknes be over blowne & all aperith fayre.

1601 B. Jonson Epos in R. Chester Loves Martyr 179 This doth from their cloud of Error grow, Which thus we ouerblow.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 3 To smile at scapes and perils ouerblowne.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 57 The best way to over-blow this feare is to confute the five Arguments.

1718 I. Watts Psalms of David lvii. i Hide me beneath thy spreading wings, Till the dark cloud is over-blown.

†2. intransitive. Of a storm: to blow over, pass away; to abate in violence. Also figurative (of danger, anger, passion, etc.): to pass away, to be past. Obsolete.Frequently in perfect tense, formed with to be.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > calmness > become composed or calm [verb (intransitive)] > allow anger or passion to abate

overblowa1393

to let fallc1430

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [verb (intransitive)] > become calm (of weather or the elements) > abate (of storm)

scarce1390

overblowa1393

vail1606

spend1678

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 7828 (MED) The colde wyndes overblowe, And stille be the scharpe schoures.

c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1287 This Eneas..Is wery of his craft withinne a throwe; The hote ernest is al ouerblowe.

c1475 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Caius) 432 (MED) Of this wodenesse..respite graunte me..That y might reste me a throwe, Wherthurgh my sorowe may ouere blowe.

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. bb.iii^v Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen.

1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 11 But all those blasts, in fine did ouerbloe.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lvii. 4 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 59 Lord..Hide me, hiue me, as thyne owne, Till those blasts be overblown.

1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions 75 This storm on Anguish being over-blown, To praise God's mercies now I may have [etc.].

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. i. 115 The Tempest is ore-blown; the Skys are clear.

1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) x. 101 Here they remain'd for nights two, Until the storm did overblow.

1791 M. Russell Diary in S. H. Jeyes Russells of Birmingham (1911) iv. 28 Here we hoped to find an asylum till the storm was overblown.

1807 C. Smith Walk in Shrubbery in Beachy Head 130 Some warm attachments I have known Just flourish for an hour at noon, But leave no trace when overblown.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 428 There lies land-locked till the hurricane is overblown.

3. transitive. Of the wind, etc.: to blow over the surface of. Of snow, sand, etc.: to cover (an animal, area, etc.) by blowing or being blown over.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > by drifting or blowing over

overblow?1440

drifta1851

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 808 (MED) So shal ereither werk ben ouerblowe With coold or hoot vndir the signys twelue.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. iv. 158 And reky nycht..Gan thikkyn our al the cavern and ourblaw.

1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 278 Sand..be the quhilk..the haill venallis of the said toun..ar owerblawin.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §328 338 The Sand..hath overblown many hundred acres of land.

1745 Scots Mag. June 275 Our ews will wander now, o'erblaw wi snaw, Or wylie Laurie takes them great and sma'.

1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 258 (note) Sheep will endure great hardships, when overblown and buried in snow by a storm—in 1785, some sheep survived, after being covered 50 days!

1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory v, in Poems 63 A sandbuilt ridge..Overblown with murmurs harsh.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 581 Where the subject of the lease is rendered unfit for the purposes for which it was let, overblown with sand, inundated [etc.].

1872 J. G. Whittier Pennsylvania Pilgrim & Other Poems 514 The music the wind drew..from leaves it overblew.

1904 Daily Chron. 23 Nov. 5/2 Hundreds of sheep were overblown on the fells.

1953 Jrnl. Ecol. 41 160 It is only in such areas over-blown with sand, or on ground which is by nature sandy, that vegetation can occur on open slopes in the deserts near Cairo.

2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 6 Jan. A good dog, with a sharp sense of smell, can find sheep overblown by snow.

4. transitive. To blow (something) over; to overthrow or upset by blowing; to blow down. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset > by blowing

overblow1555

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.iv^v This wynd wyl ouer blow vs fyrst I trow.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things i. 2 A Certayne Poet..dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoos, lest the wind should overblow him.

1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 171 Which neither..the windes nor waves of his answeres will overflow or over~blow.

1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §4. 128 To overthrow, and overblow her strongest Bulwarkes.

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. viii. 225 The tents are seldom overblown.

†5. intransitive. Nautical. Of the wind: to blow extremely hard, esp. so that full sail cannot be carried. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly

besom?a1400

bluster1530

overblow1587

ruffiana1616

to blow great guns1779

to blow guns1833

1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Bj^v To get out the Ship..was vnpossible, for that the winde was contrarie and ouerblowed.

1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 777 The winde came Northerly and ouerblew.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea iv. 10 If the wind had not over-blowne, and that to follow them, I was forced to shut all my lower ports, the ship I vndertooke..had never endured to come to the Port.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 46 It ouer blowes when we can beare no top-sailes.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 564 By the benefit of this Current, tho the wind be contrary, if it does not over-blow, Ships easily turn into the gut, as they term the narrow passage.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 3 Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-sail.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. II. To overblow,..is said of the wind when it blows so hard that the ship can carry no sail.

6. Music and Acoustics.

a. transitive. To blow (an instrument) too hard or too loudly; to supply wind at too great a pressure to (an organ pipe).

ΚΠ

a1658 R. Lovelace Poems in Lucasta (1659–60) 51 Now, as at a Coronation When noyse, the guard, and trumpets are oreblown, The silent Commons mark their Princes way, And with still Reverence both look, and pray.

c1710–28 R. North in J. Wilson Roger North on Music (1959) 233 It is a wonderfull nicety and skill in the organ builders, to make the same wind serve all pipes, great and small, and not to over-blow the small ones and make them break into a whistle.

1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 11 There is an instrument on each side of the choir, called the serpent... It is often ill-played, but if judiciously used, would have a good effect. It is, however, in general overblown.

1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 575/1 An organ thus supplied with wind could not be over-blown.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues App.3 363 They have to overblow their instruments, fighting to be heard.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 214 Benny Goodman reacted differently: ‘This is the first time..that I've ever heard a tenor sax played the way it should be and not overblown.’

1991 M. Kenyon Kleinberg ii. xviii. 112 Mox overblows his instrument to fill each brief silence.

b. transitive. To manipulate the behaviour of the column of air in (a wind instrument, or an organ pipe) in such a way as to produce a harmonic or overtone instead of the fundamental note. Also (of the instrument or pipe): to produce (a harmonic or overtone) by this means. Also intransitive or (occasionally) reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > blow forcibly, producing harmonic

overblow1852

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. iv. iii. 79 The pipe will over-blow itself [Ger. überbläst sich], that is it will sound an octave higher.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 347/1 A fine stop used by the French, is produced by making the pipes overblow, as it is called, so as to sound an octave higher than the note due to their length.

1959 Amer. Antiq. 24 408/2 Through alternate fingering a greater variety of notes is possible, and as is characteristic of modern instruments the octave may be overblown.

1976 Early Music 4 511/1 Then Jacob Denner (1732) developed an instrument, which, by means of a key, overblew into the higher register, at an interval of an octave plus a tritone (the modern clarinet overblows at an interval of a twelfth).

1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music I. 12/1 A small hole is pierced..along each pipe to encourage the second harmonic to take over the role of the ‘fundamental’ when the pipe is overblown.

1998 J. A. Sadie Compan. Baroque Music ii. 373 The chalumeau had two keys near the upper end, one at the back to help it overblow to the upper register.., and one at the front.

7. transitive. Metallurgy. To subject (a charge in a blast furnace) to an excessive length of blast. Also intransitive. Cf. overblown adj.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > convert into steel > processes involved in

overblow1869

recarburize1870

bessemerize1888

nodulize1905

kill1906

pneumatize1949

1869 Chem. News 9 Apr. 170/2 If a charge is ‘over~blown’—that is, if it be subjected to the action of the air for too long a period,..the steel will be found to be defective in proportion to its unskilful treatment.

1932 E. Gregson Metall. ii. 32 Great experience is necessary at this point, since if the metal is ‘over-blown’ for only 15 seconds, steels containing a large proportion of iron oxide are obtained.

1951 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel II. ii. 26 Frequently a heat that has been overblown may be dirty.

1999 H in Steel in sci.engr.metallurgy (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Aug. You have to be careful not to overblow because you will suck in air and increase N immensely.

8. transitive. To exaggerate, overplay.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)]

flatter?c1225

engregec1386

enhancec1400

extol?1504

extend1509

aggravate1533

exagger1535

blowa1538

amplify1561

exasperate1561

bombast1566

aggerate1570

enlarge1592

rengrege1601

exaggerate1604

magnify1605

hyperbolize1609

to slobber over ——1761

bloat1896

over-heighten1904

overpitch1904

overblow1961

inflate1982

1961 Amer. Hist. Rev. 66 1094 It presents Elyot coolly, with no attempt to overblow him.

1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 122/2 The deficit problem was being overblown.

2002 Columbus Dispatch (Nexis) 19 May 3 d Talk about things that don't matter, overblow your opponent's faults and reduce the level of political discourse to inanity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overblow
释义	overblown. Brit. /ˈəʊvəbləʊ/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌbloʊ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: overblow v.¹ Etymology: < overblow v.¹ Compare earlier overblowing n. An instance of overblowing something; (Metallurgy) a period or instance of overblowing a charge in a blast furnace (cf. overblown adj.¹ 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > conversion of metals > of iron into steel > processes involved in overblow1705 recarburization1868 recarburizing1872 after-blow1879 overblowing1879 blow1881 fluid compression1884 pigging back1900 nodulizing1905 nodulization1915 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. iii, Over-blow, that is, when the wind blows so very hard, that the Ship can bear no Topsails. 1879 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 158 One minute overblow and the phosphorus came down to ·75 per cent. 1901 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 196 504 During this over-blow there is a copious production of dense fume, composed of oxidised metallic vapours, chiefly iron. 1946 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 152 12 p This rather long overblow only caused a reduction of about 0·03% in the blown-metal carbon content. 2001 Re: Reed Adjustment in alt.music.harmonica (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Oct. The only overblow I managed..was on the 6th hole of a Golden Melody in the key of E. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overblowv.¹ Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈbləʊ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbloʊ/ Inflections: Past tense overblew; past participle overblown; Forms: see over- prefix and blow v.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, blow v.¹ Etymology: < over- prefix + blow v.¹In sense 6b after German (reflexive) überblasen (1844 in the passage translated in quot. 1852¹ at sense 6b). †1. transitive. To blow (something) off or away. Also figurative: to dispel, drive out or away (troubles, fears, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow out, away, or apart overblowa1387 ventilatea1440 blast1548 difflate1590 exsufflate1666 whuffle1906 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 95 Al þe creem and fatnesse of þat mylke..schulde be overblowe and i-take awey. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 119 Of sterne Katoun þe fame is over-blowe, And marked [MS maked] now in lettres bot a fewe. a1475 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 75 (MED) The pot ys esy for to kepe, When the fat ys over blowe. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 63 (MED) Then clowdes of darknes be over blowne & all aperith fayre. 1601 B. Jonson Epos in R. Chester Loves Martyr 179 This doth from their cloud of Error grow, Which thus we ouerblow. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 3 To smile at scapes and perils ouerblowne. View more context for this quotation 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 57 The best way to over-blow this feare is to confute the five Arguments. 1718 I. Watts Psalms of David lvii. i Hide me beneath thy spreading wings, Till the dark cloud is over-blown. †2. intransitive. Of a storm: to blow over, pass away; to abate in violence. Also figurative (of danger, anger, passion, etc.): to pass away, to be past. Obsolete.Frequently in perfect tense, formed with to be. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > become composed or calm [verb (intransitive)] > allow anger or passion to abate overblowa1393 to let fallc1430 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [verb (intransitive)] > become calm (of weather or the elements) > abate (of storm) scarce1390 overblowa1393 vail1606 spend1678 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 7828 (MED) The colde wyndes overblowe, And stille be the scharpe schoures. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1287 This Eneas..Is wery of his craft withinne a throwe; The hote ernest is al ouerblowe. c1475 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Caius) 432 (MED) Of this wodenesse..respite graunte me..That y might reste me a throwe, Wherthurgh my sorowe may ouere blowe. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. bb.iii^v Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen. 1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 11 But all those blasts, in fine did ouerbloe. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lvii. 4 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 59 Lord..Hide me, hiue me, as thyne owne, Till those blasts be overblown. 1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions 75 This storm on Anguish being over-blown, To praise God's mercies now I may have [etc.]. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. i. 115 The Tempest is ore-blown; the Skys are clear. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) x. 101 Here they remain'd for nights two, Until the storm did overblow. 1791 M. Russell Diary in S. H. Jeyes Russells of Birmingham (1911) iv. 28 Here we hoped to find an asylum till the storm was overblown. 1807 C. Smith Walk in Shrubbery in Beachy Head 130 Some warm attachments I have known Just flourish for an hour at noon, But leave no trace when overblown. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 428 There lies land-locked till the hurricane is overblown. 3. transitive. Of the wind, etc.: to blow over the surface of. Of snow, sand, etc.: to cover (an animal, area, etc.) by blowing or being blown over. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > by drifting or blowing over overblow?1440 drifta1851 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 808 (MED) So shal ereither werk ben ouerblowe With coold or hoot vndir the signys twelue. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. iv. 158 And reky nycht..Gan thikkyn our al the cavern and ourblaw. 1573 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 278 Sand..be the quhilk..the haill venallis of the said toun..ar owerblawin. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §328 338 The Sand..hath overblown many hundred acres of land. 1745 Scots Mag. June 275 Our ews will wander now, o'erblaw wi snaw, Or wylie Laurie takes them great and sma'. 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 258 (note) Sheep will endure great hardships, when overblown and buried in snow by a storm—in 1785, some sheep survived, after being covered 50 days! 1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory v, in Poems 63 A sandbuilt ridge..Overblown with murmurs harsh. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 581 Where the subject of the lease is rendered unfit for the purposes for which it was let, overblown with sand, inundated [etc.]. 1872 J. G. Whittier Pennsylvania Pilgrim & Other Poems 514 The music the wind drew..from leaves it overblew. 1904 Daily Chron. 23 Nov. 5/2 Hundreds of sheep were overblown on the fells. 1953 Jrnl. Ecol. 41 160 It is only in such areas over-blown with sand, or on ground which is by nature sandy, that vegetation can occur on open slopes in the deserts near Cairo. 2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 6 Jan. A good dog, with a sharp sense of smell, can find sheep overblown by snow. 4. transitive. To blow (something) over; to overthrow or upset by blowing; to blow down. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset > by blowing overblow1555 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. D.iv^v This wynd wyl ouer blow vs fyrst I trow. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things i. 2 A Certayne Poet..dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoos, lest the wind should overblow him. 1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 171 Which neither..the windes nor waves of his answeres will overflow or over~blow. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §4. 128 To overthrow, and overblow her strongest Bulwarkes. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. viii. 225 The tents are seldom overblown. †5. intransitive. Nautical. Of the wind: to blow extremely hard, esp. so that full sail cannot be carried. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly besom?a1400 bluster1530 overblow1587 ruffiana1616 to blow great guns1779 to blow guns1833 1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Bj^v To get out the Ship..was vnpossible, for that the winde was contrarie and ouerblowed. 1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 777 The winde came Northerly and ouerblew. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea iv. 10 If the wind had not over-blowne, and that to follow them, I was forced to shut all my lower ports, the ship I vndertooke..had never endured to come to the Port. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 46 It ouer blowes when we can beare no top-sailes. 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 564 By the benefit of this Current, tho the wind be contrary, if it does not over-blow, Ships easily turn into the gut, as they term the narrow passage. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 3 Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-sail. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. II. To overblow,..is said of the wind when it blows so hard that the ship can carry no sail. 6. Music and Acoustics. a. transitive. To blow (an instrument) too hard or too loudly; to supply wind at too great a pressure to (an organ pipe). ΚΠ a1658 R. Lovelace Poems in Lucasta (1659–60) 51 Now, as at a Coronation When noyse, the guard, and trumpets are oreblown, The silent Commons mark their Princes way, And with still Reverence both look, and pray. c1710–28 R. North in J. Wilson Roger North on Music (1959) 233 It is a wonderfull nicety and skill in the organ builders, to make the same wind serve all pipes, great and small, and not to over-blow the small ones and make them break into a whistle. 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 11 There is an instrument on each side of the choir, called the serpent... It is often ill-played, but if judiciously used, would have a good effect. It is, however, in general overblown. 1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 575/1 An organ thus supplied with wind could not be over-blown. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues App.3 363 They have to overblow their instruments, fighting to be heard. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 214 Benny Goodman reacted differently: ‘This is the first time..that I've ever heard a tenor sax played the way it should be and not overblown.’ 1991 M. Kenyon Kleinberg ii. xviii. 112 Mox overblows his instrument to fill each brief silence. b. transitive. To manipulate the behaviour of the column of air in (a wind instrument, or an organ pipe) in such a way as to produce a harmonic or overtone instead of the fundamental note. Also (of the instrument or pipe): to produce (a harmonic or overtone) by this means. Also intransitive or (occasionally) reflexive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)] > blow forcibly, producing harmonic overblow1852 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. iv. iii. 79 The pipe will over-blow itself [Ger. überbläst sich], that is it will sound an octave higher. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 347/1 A fine stop used by the French, is produced by making the pipes overblow, as it is called, so as to sound an octave higher than the note due to their length. 1959 Amer. Antiq. 24 408/2 Through alternate fingering a greater variety of notes is possible, and as is characteristic of modern instruments the octave may be overblown. 1976 Early Music 4 511/1 Then Jacob Denner (1732) developed an instrument, which, by means of a key, overblew into the higher register, at an interval of an octave plus a tritone (the modern clarinet overblows at an interval of a twelfth). 1983 New Oxf. Compan. Music I. 12/1 A small hole is pierced..along each pipe to encourage the second harmonic to take over the role of the ‘fundamental’ when the pipe is overblown. 1998 J. A. Sadie Compan. Baroque Music ii. 373 The chalumeau had two keys near the upper end, one at the back to help it overblow to the upper register.., and one at the front. 7. transitive. Metallurgy. To subject (a charge in a blast furnace) to an excessive length of blast. Also intransitive. Cf. overblown adj.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > convert into steel > processes involved in overblow1869 recarburize1870 bessemerize1888 nodulize1905 kill1906 pneumatize1949 1869 Chem. News 9 Apr. 170/2 If a charge is ‘over~blown’—that is, if it be subjected to the action of the air for too long a period,..the steel will be found to be defective in proportion to its unskilful treatment. 1932 E. Gregson Metall. ii. 32 Great experience is necessary at this point, since if the metal is ‘over-blown’ for only 15 seconds, steels containing a large proportion of iron oxide are obtained. 1951 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel II. ii. 26 Frequently a heat that has been overblown may be dirty. 1999 H in Steel in sci.engr.metallurgy (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Aug. You have to be careful not to overblow because you will suck in air and increase N immensely. 8. transitive. To exaggerate, overplay. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > exaggerate [verb (transitive)] flatter?c1225 engregec1386 enhancec1400 extol?1504 extend1509 aggravate1533 exagger1535 blowa1538 amplify1561 exasperate1561 bombast1566 aggerate1570 enlarge1592 rengrege1601 exaggerate1604 magnify1605 hyperbolize1609 to slobber over ——1761 bloat1896 over-heighten1904 overpitch1904 overblow1961 inflate1982 1961 Amer. Hist. Rev. 66 1094 It presents Elyot coolly, with no attempt to overblow him. 1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 122/2 The deficit problem was being overblown. 2002 Columbus Dispatch (Nexis) 19 May 3 d Talk about things that don't matter, overblow your opponent's faults and reduce the level of political discourse to inanity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † overblowv.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, blow v.² Etymology: < over- prefix + blow v.² Compare earlier overblown adj.² Obsolete. rare. transitive. To cover so as to adorn (something) with blossom. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > be or affect a flowering plant [verb (transitive)] > cover with flowers or blossom bebloom1578 overblow1856 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 277 He overblows an ugly grave With violets which blossom in the spring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1705v.¹a1387v.²1856
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