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overbaking

overbaking is the present participle and gerund 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 overbaking

What is overbaking the present participle and gerund of?
Overbaking is the present participle and gerund of overbake.

Words near overbaking in the dictionary

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

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