Usually means: Exaggerated beyond reasonable or true.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. overblown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overblown: Merriam-Webster
  3. overblown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overblown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overblown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overblown: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overblown, overblown: Wordnik
  8. overblown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overblown: Wiktionary
  10. overblown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overblown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overblown: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overblown: Dictionary.com
  14. overblown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Overblown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. overblown: Rhymezone
  17. overblown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overblown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. overblown: FreeDictionary.org
  20. overblown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overblown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overblown: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overblown: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overblown: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.

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