0 present participle of overestimate --
1 to think that something is or will be greater, more extreme, or more important than it really is: --
I overestimated and there was a lot of food left over after the party.
They were forced to the conclusion that they had overestimated him/his abilities.
The benefits of nuclear technology, she said, had been grossly overestimated.
Percentages of concordance show good agreement with more relatives overestimating than underestimating in most cases.
There appeared to be a slight trend with both methods of increasingly overestimating genetic variance as the number of loci in the genetic model increased.
The latter risks overestimating the differences involved and therefore making a slightly ambiguous statistical correlation appear to be clear and dramatic.
This adjustment was done to avoid overestimating the effectiveness of this test.
Overestimating the level of immigration also exacerbates the sense of threat and boosts restrictionist sentiment.
Thus, there is a risk of overestimating the effectiveness in routine practice.
Models "correctly" overestimating conditional expected survival in the enalapril group give survival differences that equal the true difference.
To do so would mean overestimating not only its ability to perceive social and economic problems but also to resolve them.
