0 past simple and past participle of overestimate
1 to think that something is or will be greater, more extreme, or more important than it really is:
The benefits of nuclear technology, she said, had been grossly overestimated.
They were forced to the conclusion that they had overestimated him/his abilities.
I overestimated and there was a lot of food left over after the party.
It seems that the international observers overestimated their role in reducing the violence.
When a mechanical prosthesis is inserted, the size must not be overestimated, as this may lead to compression of the circumflex artery.
Although the model predicted low germination percentages at both incubation regimes, simulated data overestimated observed germination values.
For individuals aged over 55 years, the extent to which clustering overestimated recent transmission increased with the size of the time period used.
Generally overestimated are natural obstacles like degraded soils or low rainfall.
However, where this assumption has to be made in the absence of data on wildlife faeces the disease risk may be under or overestimated.
We may therefore have overestimated, or underestimated, the effects of urbanization on the incidence of schizophrenia across the life course.
It is also apparent from this figure that the model overestimated at high disparities and underestimated at low disparities.
