overestimate
verb (used with object)
to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like.
were overestimating
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past progressiveof overestimate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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However, Esther naturally believed that her friends were overestimating her achievement, yet she had recently scarcely understood herself.
From The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook
Two weeks ago, if you had said one in ten, I should have thought you were overestimating.
From The Taming of Red Butte Western by Francis Lynde
