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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OVERBLOWN, pp. Blown by and gone; blown away; driven by; past.
And when this cloud of sorrow's overblown.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: ³blow Date: 1616 past the prime of bloom <overblown roses> II. adjective Etymology: ¹blow Date: 1864 1. excessively large in girth ; portly 2. inflated <overblown claims> <overblown rhetoric>; also pretentious

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 excessively inflated or pretentious. 2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is overblown makes something seem larger, more important, or more significant than it really is. Warnings of disaster may be overblown... The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown. = exaggerated ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

arty, aureate, big, bloated, bombastic, bursting, choked, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, declamatory, distended, drenched, dropsical, euphuistic, fat, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy, flowery, glutted, gorged, grandiloquent, gross, heavy, hyperemic, imposing, in spate, jam-packed, jammed, magniloquent, obese, oratorical, over the hill, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overripe, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, plethoric, portly, ready to burst, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, sonorous, stout, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy