overrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate.
has overrated
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present perfectof overrate (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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“I think Jerry has overrated his roster,” Marshall said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Miss Vernon has overrated my humble efforts," said Rashleigh, "though I claim full credit for my zeal.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
As he has overrated some juvenile indiscretions of mine, I fear he is too friendly a critic.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
You know him, Colonel Temple, and I trust that you have not found that my partiality has overrated his real merit.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
I do not think the gentleman from South Carolina has overrated the money price of New-England labor at fifty cents; but most of the labor is performed by the owners of the soil.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child
