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Meaning of OVERBLOWN

Pronunciation:  `owvur'blown

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

 

 

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