Definition of "overrates" [overrates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overrate. (verb)

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• "He overrates devaluation as a remedy for the problems of southern Europe: loss of purchasing power, stagflation, erosion of confidence in the currency and consequent higher cost of capital are the side-effects which are unlikely to be offset adequately by improved export performance."
• "History overrates role players that surround superstars."
• "He savages Street Legal, dismisses Oh Mercy as "airless", and rather overrates, in my opinion, the patchwork quilt of quotations that is Love and Theft."