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Overblown Common

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Overblown has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

past participle of overblow

Adjective
1

puffed up with vanity

"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

"overblown oratory"

"a pompous speech"

"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

2

past the stage of full bloom

"overblown roses"

3

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

Example Sentences
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner" adjective
"overblown oratory" adjective
"a pompous speech" adjective
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey" adjective
"overblown roses" adjective
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Rhyming Words
own sown town lown mown gown rown down adown known grown frown shown brown sdown coown blown clown crown drown
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