overestimate
verb (used with object)
to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like.
has overestimated
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present perfectof overestimate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico argues that Robock’s group has overestimated how much soot burning cities would produce and how high the smoke would go8.
From Nature ● Mar. 15, 2020
In the C.B.O.’s assessment of its own accuracy, the agency says it has overestimated revenue by an average of 1.1 percent for two-year projections and by 5.3 percent for six-year projections since 1982.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
A: It sounds like this person has overestimated how much his behavior affected you.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2016
Everything she does is calculated, like everything he does,” yet she has overestimated her own security.
From Salon ● May 28, 2012
Beyond any doubt the foe has overestimated our strength tenfold.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
