overbake
overbake verb: to bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.
Verb
overbake (third-person singular simple present overbakes, present participle overbaking, simple past and past participle overbaked)
- 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
- Antonyms:
- underbake
Antonyms of overbake
Forms of overbake
| third-person singular present | overbakes |
|---|---|
| present participle | overbaking |
| past participle | overbaked |
| past | overbaked |
Origin of overbake
From over- + bake.
Questions about overbake
- What does overbake mean?
- Overbake means to bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.
- What part of speech is overbake?
- Overbake is a verb.
- What is the past tense of overbake?
- The past tense of overbake is overbaked.
Words near overbake in the dictionary
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