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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Overblow \O`ver*blow"\, v. i. 1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

    2. (Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Overblow \O`ver*blow"\, v. t. 1. To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. [1913 Webster]

    When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. --Waller. [1913 Webster]

    2. To ascribe an unwarranted importance to. [PJC]

    3. (Music) To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones. [PJC]