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oversauce

oversauce verb: to cover (food) with too much sauce.

Verb

oversauce (third-person singular simple present oversauces, present participle oversaucing, simple past and past participle oversauced)

  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 of oversauce

third-person singular presentoversauces
present participleoversaucing
past participleoversauced
pastoversauced

Origin of oversauce

From over- + sauce.

Questions about oversauce

What does oversauce mean?
Oversauce means to cover (food) with too much sauce.
What part of speech is oversauce?
Oversauce is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversauce?
The past tense of oversauce is oversauced.

Words near oversauce in the dictionary

  1. oversaturated
  2. oversaturates
  3. oversaturating
  4. oversaturation
  5. oversaturations
  6. oversauce
  7. oversauced
  8. oversauces
  9. oversaucing
  10. oversaucy
  11. oversave

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