overrate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: o=ver=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

overrate, v. t. 

 To rate or value too highly; to overestimate.  [1913 Webster]

overrate, n. 

 An excessive rate.  Massinger.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

overrate, v.tr. assess too highly.

ROGET THESAURUS

overrate

Overestimation

VB overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh, overreckon, overstrain, overpraise, eulogize, estimate too highly, attach too much importance to, make mountains of molehills, catch at straws, strain, magnify, exaggerate, set too high a value upon, think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of, outreckon, panegyrize, extol, extol to the skies, make the most of, make the best of, make the worst of, make two bites of a cherry, have too high an opinion of oneself.