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Overrate

//ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An excessive estimate or rate.
Verb
  1. 1
    To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
  2. 2
    make too high an estimate of wordnet
  3. 3
    To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.

    "The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From over- + rate.

Etymology 2

From over- + rate.

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