overestimate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they overestimate | |
| he / she / it overestimates | |
| past simple overestimated | |
| past participle overestimated | |
| -ing form overestimating |
- 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