overestimate
verb (used with object)
to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like.
am overestimating
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present progressiveof overestimate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps I am overestimating my ability—I probably am—but at least I mean to attempt it.
From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Thomas Mott Osborne
