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v. Past participle of overblow.

adj. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations.

adj. Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic: overblown oratory.

adj. Past the stage of full bloom: overblown roses.

adj. Very fat; obese.

adj. Having been blown down or over: a pile of overblown saplings.

adj. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.

v. Past participle of overblow

adj. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified.

adj. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive.

Blown over, as wind or storm; hence, past; at an end.

In the Bessemer steel process, injured by the continuance of the blast after the carbon has been removed; burnt.

Past the time of blossoming or blooming; withered, as a flower.

adj. puffed up with vanity

adj. past the stage of full bloom

"He's had his share of low points, too: the Tawana Brawley case, about which Mr. Sharpton says he has no regrets, and the Freddy's incident and the anti-Semitic flare-ups, which he calls overblown and no worse than that of Nixon and Billy Graham."

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