overrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate.
were overrating
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past progressiveof overrate.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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The Chiefs felt that their civilian colleagues in the Pentagon, Weinberger and Perle, were overrating the impor tance of throw weight.
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