have overrated

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of overrate.
  overrate

  verb (used with object)

  to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate.

Example Sentences

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have overrated

“When you have seen more of this country, I am afraid you will think you have overrated Hartfield. Surry is full of beauties.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Perhaps we have overrated roots as a psychic need.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

It may be thought that I have overrated the importance of this subject, but it is believed that a careful examination of the facts will relieve me from this charge.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

I find, however, that I have overrated the strength that remains to me.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

I have overrated the population of Zinder: that city, probably, does not contain more than ten thousand souls, if so many.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

Related Words

• exaggerate
• magnify
• overestimate
• oversell
• overvalue