Definition of "overrate" []

• To overestimate the merits of; rate too highly. (verb-transitive)

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• "Indeed, as Miriam herself concedes, "from the POV of literary history, it's quite possible to 'overrate' a novel's importance (the extent to which it attracted imitators, was genre-changing or - originating, etc.) by pointing to its aesthetic superiority.""
• "Then again, from the POV of literary history, it's quite possible to "overrate" a novel's importance the extent to which it attacted imitators, was genre-changing or -originating, etc. by pointing to its aesthetic superiority."
• "One explanation given for the finding was that men tended to "overrate" the severity of cold and flu symptoms."