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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commiserateto feel or express sympathy : condole
diffusebeing at once verbose and ill-organized
suffuseto spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush
compulsorymandatory
errantbehaving wrongly
sleightdeceitful craftiness
sonorousproducing sound (as when struck)
impotentnot potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
roilto make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of