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Overvalued

Overvalue \O`ver*val"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overvalued; p. pr. & vb. n. Overvaluing.]

  1. To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. ``To overvalue human power.''
    --Holyday.

  2. To exceed in value. [R.]
    --H. Brooke.

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overvalued

vb. (en-past of: overvalue)

Usage examples of "overvalued".

Cashel knew his own strength, but when he was excited he sometimes overvalued the strength of other people.

If his analyst’s eye told him the stocks were overvalued, his trader’s logic steadied him.

It may be an overvalued condition in most expendable slaves, but I need yours to persist awhile longer.

I’ve overvalued its woody, whorled coves and harbours, convincing myself of an architectural spaciousness and, at the same time, coziness, when I really, long ago, should have pursued some professional decorating advice.

He told me a thousand times physical beauty is grotesquely overvalued in our society, and those who possess it are more cursed than blessed.