verb, -blew, -blown, -blow⋅ing.| 1. | to give excessive importance or value to: to overblow one's own writing. |
| 2. | to overinflate. |
| 3. | to blow over the surface of, as the wind, sand, or the like: dead leaves overblowing the yard. |
| 4. | to blow (a wind instrument or an organ pipe) in such a way as to produce overtones. |
| 5. | to overblow a wind instrument. |