overcalculate
verbEtymology From over- + calculate.
1
To calculate as being greater than is actually the case
- Meanwhile, Mr. Blair began, as anxious people will do, to overcalculate the lapse of time.1822, John Gibson Lockhart, Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair, Chapter XI, page 135:
- Synonyms
- exaggerate, overestimate, overstate