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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
overblown \o`ver*blown"\, a.
1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having
had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an
overblown medical discovery.
[PJC]
3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown
rhetoric.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overblown
adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous},
{pontifical}, {portentous}]
2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
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