overblows

Overblows is the third-person singular of overblow, which has two distinct meanings.

In music, to overblow is to blow into a wind instrument with enough force to produce a higher harmonic: She overblows the flute to reach the upper register.

Separately, to overblow is to exaggerate or inflate beyond reasonable bounds—a storm that overblows itself eventually subsides, and rhetoric that overblows a minor issue makes it seem catastrophic.