Usually means: Exceeding normal limits in intensity.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word overblow:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. overblow: Merriam-Webster
  2. overblow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. overblow: Collins English Dictionary
  4. overblow: Wordnik
  5. overblow: Wiktionary
  6. overblow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. overblow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. overblow: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Overblow, overblow: Dictionary.com
  10. Overblow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. overblow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Overblow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. overblow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. overblow: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overblow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overblow: Legal dictionary

(Note: See overblew as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overblow)

verb:  (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.
verb:  (transitive) To blow over or across.
verb:  (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
verb:  (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
verb:  (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
verb:  (intransitive, music) Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, archaic) Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.

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