Overpredict

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To predict to be higher than the actual value

    "The harvest was overpredicted because the forecasters did not anticipate the dry weather."

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"The harvest was overpredicted because the forecasters did not anticipate the dry weather."

Etymology

From over- + predict.

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