This is the 15872nd most frequent German word.
überschätzen
To overestimate.
The verb "überschätzen" is used to indicate having an estimate of someone's abilities that is too high, leading to a misconception.
Ich glaube, wir haben ihre Fähigkeiten in dieser Situation überschätzt.
I believe we have overestimated their abilities in this situation.
Here, "überschätzen" serves as a warning against evaluating the difficulty of the task as greater than it actually is.
Man sollte die Schwierigkeit dieser Aufgabe nicht überschätzen.
One should not overestimate the difficulty of this task.
In this sentence, "überschätzen" is utilized to convey the idea of thinking that small changes have a larger impact than they realistically do.