overblow

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To blow a wind instrument hard to produce a higher pitch than usual

The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.

To exaggerate the significance of something

if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it.

To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing
To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind
To blow over, or be subdued
overblow
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