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overbakes

overbakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbake.

Meaning of overbake

Verb

overbake (third-person singular simple present overbakes, present participle overbaking, simple past and past participle overbaked)

  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
    Antonyms:
    underbake

Questions about overbakes

What is overbakes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overbakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbake.

Words near overbakes in the dictionary

  1. overbaited
  2. overbaiting
  3. overbaits
  4. overbake
  5. overbaked
  6. overbakes
  7. overbaking
  8. overbalance
  9. overbalanced
  10. overbalances
  11. overbalancing

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