overrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate.
had overrated
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past perfectof overrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Intelligence had overrated Soviet production, Charlie Wilson ordered 6-52 production stepped down from the theoretical 20 to 15.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a passion of which he had overrated the force and permanence in the days of inexperience?
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
There was a sudden choking gulp in the mother's throat; she had overrated her strength a little.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
The reaction takes place, and they then underrate, as much as before they had overrated, each other.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
After fuller acquaintance with the members, it became obvious that in assigning them to committee work I had overrated some and underrated others, but a better working Congress never met.
From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer
