overestimate
verb🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/
🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they overestimate | 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/ |
| he / she / it overestimates | 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪts/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪts/ |
| past simple overestimated | 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle overestimated | 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form overestimating | 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈestɪmeɪtɪŋ/ |
- overestimate something
to estimate something to be larger, better, more important, etc. than it really is 高估 They overestimated his ability when they promoted him. 他们提拔他的时候高估了他的能力。 🔊🔊 The importance of these findings cannot be overestimated (= is very great). 这些发现的重要性是无法充分估量的。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesThe Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits. 财政部一贯高估预算赤字。 We overestimated the cost by about 2 per cent. 我们高估了大约2% 的费用。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- considerably
- greatly
- grossly
- …
- tend to
- be easy to
- be difficult to
- …
- by
- something cannot be overestimated