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overbake en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + bake.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.
    • And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat. 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 1:
    • It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right. 2007 April 18, “Letters”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overbaked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overbaked Tense=Past lexicographic
overbakes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overbaking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

underbake

Coordinates

overroast · burn · overboil · overbroil · overfry · scorch

Hypernyms

overdo · bake · overcook

Relateds

rebake

Translations (3)

hu túlsüt (to bake for too long) · pl spiec (to bake for too long) · pl spiekać (to bake for too long)