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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

oversauce en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + sauce.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cover (food) with too much sauce.
    • I am not suggesting that we return to oversauced baked ziti with sausages, mozzarella-laden lasagna or spaghetti under three handball-size meatballs. 2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
oversaucing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
oversauces Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
oversauced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
oversauced Tense=Past lexicographic