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OVERRATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overrate ... he / she / it overrates
Past simple: overrated
Past participle: overrated
-ing form: overrating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make too high an estimate of
Example:
He overestimated his own powers
Synonyms:
overestimate; overrate
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "overrate" is one way to...):
misjudge (judge incorrectly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overrate"):
overcapitalise; overcapitalize (overestimate the market value of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
overrating (a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high)
