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Overdate vs Overrate - What's the difference?

overdate | overrate |

As verbs the difference between overdate and overrate

is that overdate is to date later than the true or proper period while overrate is to esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.

As a noun overdate

is a coin in which one date is superimposed over traces of another (due to reuse of a die).

overdate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A coin in which one date is superimposed over traces of another (due to reuse of a die)

    • Verb

    (overdat)
  • To date later than the true or proper period.
    • (Milton)
    (Webster 1913)

    overrate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * over-rate

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.