overvalue

[oh-ver-val-yoo]

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verb (used with object), o·ver·val·ued, o·ver·val·u·ing.

to value too highly; put too high a value on: They should be careful not to overvalue the property.

Origin of overvalue

First recorded in 1590–1600; over- + value

Related formso·ver·val·u·a·tion, noun

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Related Words for overvalue

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Examples from the Web for overvalue

Historical Examples of overvalue

And as a fiction of science, it would be difficult to overvalue this invention.
Aids to Reflection
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I may overvalue your aid, but not the affection from which it comes.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 70, No. 433, November 1851
Various
To this end, overvalue not any private or singular opinions of your own or others.
A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4)
Richard Baxter
It stakes us happy to overvalue each other; let us keep that illusion.
Master Olof
August Strindberg
We overvalue intellectual as compared with moral and emotional gifts.
Atlantic Classics, Second Series
Henry C. Merwin