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third-person singular simple present overestimates, present participle overestimating, simple past and past participle overestimated
To judge or calculate too highly. quotations examples
One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 15
plural overestimates
An estimate that is too high. quotations examples
The employment projection for the metropolitan area for 1985 was an overestimate by about 12 percent.
2013, Peter Karl Kresl, Jaime Sobrino, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies