Definition of "overblown" []

• Past participle of overblow. (verb)
• Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. (adjective)
• Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic: overblown oratory. (adjective)
• Past the stage of full bloom: overblown roses. (adjective)
• Very fat; obese. (adjective)

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• "He's had his share of low points, too: the Tawana Brawley case, about which Mr. Sharpton says he has no regrets, and the Freddy's incident and the anti-Semitic flare-ups, which he calls overblown and no worse than that of Nixon and Billy Graham."
• "Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S."
• "Why we should be surprised anymore to find out the the “dangers” of vaccines, Alar, DDT, “global warming,” er, I mean “climate change,” to name just a few, were cooked and overblown is beyond me."