Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overestimate
Participle: overestimated
Gerund: overestimating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overestimate |
| you | overestimate |
| he;she;it | overestimates |
| we | overestimate |
| you | overestimate |
| they | overestimate |
Perfect
| I | have overestimated |
| you | have overestimated |
| he;she;it | has overestimated |
| we | have overestimated |
| you | have overestimated |
| they | have overestimated |
Past
| I | overestimated |
| you | overestimated |
| he;she;it | overestimated |
| we | overestimated |
| you | overestimated |
| they | overestimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had overestimated |
| you | had overestimated |
| he;she;it | had overestimated |
| we | had overestimated |
| you | had overestimated |
| they | had overestimated |
Future
| I | will overestimate |
| you | will overestimate |
| he;she;it | will overestimate |
| we | will overestimate |
| you | will overestimate |
| they | will overestimate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overestimated |
| you | will have overestimated |
| he;she;it | will have overestimated |
| we | will have overestimated |
| you | will have overestimated |
| they | will have overestimated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overestimate |
| you | overestimate |
| he;she;it | overestimate |
| we | overestimate |
| you | overestimate |
| they | overestimate |
Perfect
| I | have overestimated |
| you | have overestimated |
| he;she;it | have overestimated |
| we | have overestimated |
| you | have overestimated |
| they | have overestimated |
Imperfect
| I | overestimated |
| you | overestimated |
| he;she;it | overestimated |
| we | overestimated |
| you | overestimated |
| they | overestimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had overestimated |
| you | had overestimated |
| he;she;it | had overestimated |
| we | had overestimated |
| you | had overestimated |
| they | had overestimated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overestimate |
| you | would overestimate |
| he;she;it | would overestimate |
| we | would overestimate |
| you | would overestimate |
| they | would overestimate |
Perfect
| I | would have overestimated |
| you | would have overestimated |
| he;she;it | would have overestimated |
| we | would have overestimated |
| you | would have overestimated |
| they | would have overestimated |
Imperative
| you | overestimate |
| we | Let's overestimate |
| you | overestimate |
Verbs conjugated like 'overestimate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overestimate'
over-estimate,
overactivate,
overanimate,
overguesstimate,
overlitigate,
overstate,
overstimulate,
reestimate,
superestimate,
underestimate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. English estimate
10. English overestimate
11. From over- + estimate.
Sample Sentences
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I overestimated the number of attendees, and bought far too much food for the party.
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Nevertheless, the role played by vertical transport (in particular, by biosedimentation) in self-purification of seas and oceans from chlorinated hydrocarbons must not be overestimated. [2016, S.A. Patin, Pollution and the Biological Resources of the Oceans, →ISBN, page 48:]
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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:]