OVERESTIMATE


Meaning of OVERESTIMATE in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A Harvard University survey found that Americans significantly overestimate the cost of higher education.

I made enough food for forty people but it looks like I overestimated.

Never overestimate your ability or strength when swimming in the ocean.

People overestimated the risk of catching the disease.

The generals had overestimated the strength of the enemy forces.

We overestimated how long the journey would take, and arrived far too early.

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After this it may be possible to evaluate whether he did overestimate its importance.

Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.

Even with that bleak assessment, however, Richard Helms overestimated his true influence.

In his budget and health care proposals, Clinton overestimated the public tolerance for new government programs.

It is hard to overestimate the impact of the crisis.

Some observers believe polls overestimated the influence of undecided voters.

The second mistake was overestimating the cost of memory.

The significance of this result, whose outlines have been generally confirmed since, can hardly be overestimated.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

We thought the job would cost $5000, but this was an overestimate .

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Even if most figures for waste are not overestimates, national statistics tell a less-than-apocalyptic tale.

Even this short period spent in Stages and 4 may be an overestimate .

It could be argued that this apparent overestimate is a true reflection of the total amount of uplift.

Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate .

These areas have apparently acquired an enhanced vitrinite reflectance which has led to an apparent overestimate of uplift.

When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous.

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