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overcook
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Word definitions for overcook in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cook too long; "The vegetables were completely overcooked"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
overcook \o`ver*cook"\, v. t. To cook too long.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add mustard sauce, season and bring to the boil very quickly so as not to overcook meat. ▪ Chutney should have a nice texture; be careful not to overcook . ▪ Do not overcook meat or it will be chewy. ▪ Don't overcook your food ...
Usage examples of overcook.
With overcooked graciousness, Brummel introduced the new or possibly new faces.
His brain seemed stuffed with Dry Town cotton or perhaps the gluey, overcooked porridge that was served at breakfast.
Mechanically, Mikhail took some overcooked roots onto his plate and raged silently.
It would probably be their usual fare: the same overcooked fowl and boiled grain, lacking any spices or herbs.
It was overcooked, thick and pasty and without any particular flavor, and reminded him of the dreadful meals he had endured at Halyn House.
Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease.
Cheeks bulging with exhaled carbon dioxide, she caught one brief, frustrating glimpse of metallic silver, poking out from beneath a pile of slumbering toddlers, before she burst out gasping, sucking in lungfuls of tainted air that sent her head spinning and turned her legs into overcooked spaghetti.
Our method of cooking, particuiarly our timing, should be carefully considered in an effort to not have sandwiches overcooked, or carried too long on the griddle.
She had made cementlike loaves of bread and overcooked hamburgers with the brightest of smiles.
The ambassador spoke briefly, then a lavish, though overcooked and underspiced, din-her followed: baby lamb with sauce Niqoise and haricots verts.
It was strange how this kind of shaved, basically overcooked mystery meat, which he guessed really was, probably, beef, could be tastier, under the right circumstances, than a really good steak.
The devouring delicacy of this jasmine swept her away, but she was not so smitten that she failed to detect a slight overcooked sensation and a faint, lingering off-note of solvent.
Most are unbearably dull, yakking day and night about waste nutrients in the run-off fluid or overcooking or the endless other bits of job-related trivia that compose their lives, but washers are an exception.
When he returned and sat himself at the massive pre-Change table in the center of the room, he found that the cooks, terrified of his famous temper, had made a hasty botch of his breakfast, overcooking the pigeon eggs and failing to crisp the cured pork the way he liked it.
While overcooked and oversalted lake alewife fillets in a sealed pot of brine was not my idea of a good time, there were folks inland for whom that was a great if expensive treat, and a very good supplement to a diet that consisted largely of bread and onion, with too little protein.