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incapacitate(dictionary)
overblown(1)(dictionary)
overblown(2)(dictionary)
overblown(dictionary)

overblown(1) (iou) and incapacitate (iou)


overblown(1) (iou)



overblown ppl adjective1. L16.
[pa. pple of OVERBLOW.]
That has blown over or passed away. L16.
Inflated with conceit or vanity; overdone, exaggerated. M19.
Far Eastern Economic Review Although some voices are..warning of a glut, these fears appear overblown.
Metallurgy. Of metal in the Bessemer process: injured or burnt by continuance of the blast after all the carbon has been removed from the metal. L19.

incapacitate (iou)



incapacitate verb trans. M17.
[from INCAPACIT(Y + -ATE3.]
Make incapable or unfit; disqualify, spec. in law.
M. Meyer The fear that he might find himself incapacitated by illness. S. Hazzard By undertaking to raise them, Dora had incapacitated herself for earning a livelihood.
incapaci'tation noun L18.