overrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate.
overrates
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present tense formof overrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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He also says his ideas are more relevant today than ever — especially as Americans develop an anti-science culture that, among other things, drastically overrates the significance of IQ tests.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
Georgetown, which has played the nation's toughest schedule according to the RPI, is ranked 12th despite a 21-10 record, which probably overrates them by 10-20 spots.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2011
Sometimes it seems that Steiner overrates the importance of language; but to him the word is the very essence of humanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
If he underrates his difficulties, or overrates the power of his means of overcoming them, it is his mistake; a mistake for which he is fully responsible.
From The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott
Alas! he overrates not my intentions, but my power.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
