0 bigger or more important or impressive than it should be:
1 made to seem more important or bigger than what is really true:
In the hot winds, they screamed their overblown upper harmonics, activated by the wind's force and the over-dried strings.
It's all very sincere, with an actor's temperament, it's all overblown, and therefore all the feelings are exaggerated.
The rhetoric of this passage seems a bit overblown.
While his treatment of facts is generally accurate, his interpretation of events is sometimes overblown, too often tailored to fit military arguments or justifications.
This tendency toward overblown rhetoric exacerbates the legitimacy problem confronting contemporary presidency, for it sets expectations far beyond the capacities of the office to deliver.
He attempted to focus tightly on the technical points of the case and to deflate the plaintiffs' overblown rhetoric.
Each time the anecdote was sewn crudely into a successive text, the episode was overblown a little more, and it quickly pulled the event beyond all sense of proportion.
However, the claim is overblown.
