GRE Word List
OVERBLOWN
past the prime of bloom
The meaning of the word overblown is past the prime of bloom.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |