0 present 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.
Perhaps that's hugely overestimating the influence that the media has on youth, or, at least, overstating the longevity of any influence it may hold.
It risks overestimating motivational factors or goals that, in a specific context, may have been rather secondary.
In this population, (3) underestimates the rate of response and correlated response, while overestimating the time required to reach equilibrium.
This unwarranted assumption about the missing data may result in either underestimating or overestimating the treatment effects.
Because only selected progeny groups within the sire family were genotyped, there is a possibility of overestimating genetic parameters.
It is a matter of not overestimating, not overreaching, not making the wrong sort of comparisons, not judging by the wrong standards.
Heterogeneity in starting salaries will bias the results by overestimating the growth rate of salaries.
To do so would mean overestimating not only its ability to perceive social and economic problems but also to resolve them.
