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Definition of Overrates
1. overrate [v] - See also: overrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrates
Literary usage of Overrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"... we are glad has been published, though we think its editor very much overrates
both its interest and practical value. The book is very neatly printed. ..."
2. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"... it is both a pleasing and a humiliating consideration to me, that the partiality
of my friends greatly overrates the importance of my services. ..."
3. The Buntling Ball: A Græco-American Play by Edgar Fawcett (1884)
"... fops full of impudent vanity Thou shinest for sense and urbanity, And if any
one states That our praise overrates, We denounce his dissent as insanity. ..."