Overrate vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between overrate and exaggerate

is that overrate is to esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.

* over-rate

(en-verb)

To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.

(exaggerat)

To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !

He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.

* overexaggerate * overstate

* (overstate) downplay, understate

* exaggeratedly * exaggeratingly * exaggerative * exaggeratively * exaggerativeness * exaggerator * exaggeratory