Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rate above the true value.
  • To outnumber.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To rate too high.
  • transitive verb To count erroneously, such that the counted number is higher than the actual number.
  • noun A count{1} that is higher than the true number; an erroneously high number determined by counting incorrectly; the result of overcounting{2}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

over- +‎ count

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