Overblow

From - + blow("to flower, bloom").

Full definition of overblow

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover with blossoms or flowers.

From Middle English overblowen, equivalent to - + blow.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
• 1610, , by William Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are
  not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?
2. (intransitive) To blow hard or with much violence.
3. (transitive) To blow over or across.
4. (transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
5. (transitive) To exaggerate the significance of something.
• 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Localif you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
6. (transitive, music) To blow a wind instrument hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
• 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and MusiciansThe upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.

Anagrams

• blow over
• bowl over