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" I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so."
Judge Reinhold

Meaning of "overblown" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF OVERBLOWN

ˌəʊvəˈbləʊn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERBLOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overblown is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERBLOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overblown

Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them is a book by the American political scientist John E. Mueller published in 2006. It argues that the threat presented by terrorism, like many other security threats, has been much inflated.

Definition of overblown in the English dictionary

The first definition of overblown in the dictionary is overdone or excessive. Other definition of overblown is bombastic; turgid. Overblown is also past the stage of full bloom.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERBLOWN

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERBLOWN

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WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERBLOWN

allhallown · allhollown · beclown · brown · clown · crown · down · downtown · end-blown · full-blown · high-flown · known · lown · out-of-town · overflown · own · shown · takedown · the bird has flown · town

Synonyms and antonyms of overblown in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OVERBLOWN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «overblown» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «overblown» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERBLOWN

Find out the translation of overblown to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of overblown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overblown» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

夸大
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

exagerada
570 millions of speakers
en

English

overblown
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

हद से ज़्यादा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مبالغ فيها
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

раздуты
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

exagerada
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অতিমাত্রায় ফুটিয়া যাত্তয়া
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ampoulé
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Overblown
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

überblasen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

大げさな
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

과장
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Overblown
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nở rất lớn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பெரிதுபடுத்தப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्ण फुलून गेलेला
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

solmuş
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

spampanato
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przesadzone
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

роздуті
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

exagerate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραφουσκωμένες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oordrewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppblåst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overblown
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overblown

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4 QUOTES WITH «OVERBLOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word overblown.
1
Frank Miller
In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
2
Walt Mossberg
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
3
Judge Reinhold
I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.
4
John S. Tanner
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERBLOWN»

Discover the use of overblown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overblown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry ...
Proposes that an exaggerated fear of terrorism, fueled by the Bush Adminstration and the terrorism industry, resulted in an unneccessary war and diverted resources that could have been used on a much smaller scale to target and disrupt ...
John E. Mueller, 2006
2
Is Globalisation an overblown term for a process, which in ...
This essay critically evaluates this argument by considering the pros and cons of the question whether trade blocs replace the concept of globalisation and the world as one single market place.
Matthias Meier, 2007
3
Soil survey
Soil Conservation Service, United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service. TABLE 4B. --ACREAGE AND PROPORTIONATE EXTENT OF THE SOILS (POSTERUPTION) (Total acreage is the total for those soils that are overblown) 200 ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1990
4
The Organ: An Encyclopedia
Overblowing When a great amount of force is exerted on an oscillating air column in a pipe, the pipe may at some point “overblow.” Overblowing is simply the shifting of a fundamental oscillation mode to a higher mode; the overblown tone will ...
Douglas Earl Bush, Richard Kassel, 2006
5
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
This is a common feature of organ pipes voiced with a chiff or consonantal onset which manifests itself acoustically in the onset phase as a initial jump to the first, or sometimes higher, overblown mode. The first overblown mode for an open ...
David Martin Howard, Jamie Angus, 2009
6
Poems. Author's ed
Let your harsh thoughts Breathe gently on it — it is overblown. Oh maiden ! touch gently the rose overblown, And think of the mother thy childhood hath known ; Smile not on the buds that exult from her stem, Lest her pallor grow paler that thou ...
Sydney Thompson Dobell, 1860
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Images of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry
Life Cycle Overblown Roses She held one up, twirling it in her hand as if to show me how the world began and ended in perfection. I was stunned. How could she make a rose so woebegone, couldn't silk stand stiff? And how could a child, ...
Myra Schneider, Dilys Wood, 2006
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Why Fears about Municipal Credit are Overblown
Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors.
Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph B. Cohen, Harvard Business School, 2011
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Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flows
The method was implemented in the OverBlown flow solver. OverBlown is developed using the Overture object-oriented framework and can solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on composite overlapping grids in two and three ...
M. M. Hafez, 2003
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When Sharks Attack! the Overblown Fear and Hype Behind Sharks
This book was created and put into distribution by a team of dedicated editors using open source and proprietary publishing tools.
Victoria Hockfield, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERBLOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overblown is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hayward Fault Quake-of-Doom TV Story Overblown, Says Source
Image: Hayward Fault Quake-of-Doom TV Story Overblown, Says Source An aperture radar image of a fault in the San Francisco Bay area ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»
2
Trump Impact—Overblown?
As if politics weren't crazy enough this year, Donald Trump has brought his unreality show to the 2016 Presidential race. Trump's buffoonery ... «Fox and Hounds Daily, Jul 15»
3
Why the ISIS threat is totally overblown
One of the most remarkable phenomena of the last year is the way the Islamic State, the vicious insurgent group in Iraq and Syria, has captured ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Stocks: Concerns About The Transports Are Overblown
While conditions among the transports could certainly deteriorate further from here, such concerns remain overblown to this point. At first glance ... «Seeking Alpha, Jul 15»
5
The Value of Tried and True: Is Turbocharging Overblown?
“How about value and engines engineered for customers who don't care what's under the hood?!” Bob Lee, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' (FCA) ... «Automobile, Jul 15»
6
Plouffe: Clinton comments on gig economy were 'overblown'
"I think that was an overblown reaction," said Plouffe, when asked about Clinton's comments in an interview on CBS "This Morning." "She also ... «Capital New York, Jul 15»
7
Fears of a Russia-China Axis Overblown
At a series of summits earlier this month, the leaders of the BRIC nations met in central Russia, followed by the Asian leaders of the Shanghai ... «Geopoliticalmonitor.com, Jul 15»
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Why Investor Worry About China Is Way Overblown
Why Investor Worry About China Is Way Overblown. Sure, China stocks are showing weakness. But investors with diversified portfolios have ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
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Trump: Coverage of McCain comments controversy overblown
Donald Trump is accusing the media of over-blowing his controversial comments mocking Sen. John McCain's time as a prisoner or war. «The Hill, Jul 15»
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PM: Bad economic news 'overblown'
Updated 5.30pm: A slew of gloomy economic news, but the Prime Minister says it's all a bit overblown. LISTEN ABOVE: PM John Key speaks to ... «Newstalk ZB, Jul 15»
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