Crossword-Solution: OVERBLOWN
We have 12 clues for the answer “OVERBLOWN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Past full bloom | 1 answer |
| Like many stump speeches | 5 answers |
| euphuistic | 14 answers |
| Flowery | 18 answers |
| hyped up | 19 answers |
| Magniloquent | 19 answers |
| declamatory | 21 answers |
| AUREATE | 24 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| Excessive | 68 answers |
| Exaggerate | 69 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERBLOWN (5)
But isn't it true, sir, that computer viruses are an overblown issue that the media has sensationalized and that they are nothing more than a minor inconvenience?" "Not really, Senator.
Softly the moon glints and glistens As the water takes and leaves, Like golden ears of corn Which fall from loose-bound sheaves, Or like the snow-white petals Which drop from an overblown rose, When Summer ripens to Autumn And the freighted year must close.
The dead, still conscious, fallen in a noble cause, see their graves overblown in a riot of poppy bloom.
She seemed just as stiff and shy as a girl ought to be, Lady Palsworthy thought, neither garrulous nor unready, and free from nearly all the heavy aggressiveness, the overgrown, overblown quality, the egotism and want of consideration of the typical modern girl.
Whereas if you had made me kinder cheer, Haply from me the secret might you hear." CXXXIX As the dog's rage is quickly overblown, Who flies the approaching robber to arrest, If the thief proffer piece of bread or bone, Of offer other lure which likes him best; As readily Zerbino to the crone Humbled himself, and burned to know the rest; Who, in the hints of the old woman, read That she had news of her he mourned as dead.
Quotes with OVERBLOWN (3)
She did it, though she hated opera. She hated everything about it. The overblown sense of drama. The violence and lewdness. No one had ever died of heartbreak in Reverie. Betrayal never led to murder. Those things didn’t happen anymore. They had the Realms now. They could experience anything without taking risks. Now, life was Better than Real.
I’m not really sure why Ziggy puts up with me. I’m broken. Mostly because of the broken woman who spawned me. I swear, adults should have to get a license to make a kid. Prove they’ve got their shit together before they bring a child into the world. My mom tried, I think. She thought she could piece herself into something resembling a mother by dropping the drugs and dropping the need to feed her overblown selfish streak. But she failed.
When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1979–2012).