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oversaucing

oversaucing is the present participle and gerund of oversauce.

Meaning of oversauce

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

Questions about oversaucing

What is oversaucing the present participle and gerund of?
Oversaucing is the present participle and gerund of oversauce.

Words near oversaucing in the dictionary

  1. oversaturation
  2. oversaturations
  3. oversauce
  4. oversauced
  5. oversauces
  6. oversaucing
  7. oversaucy
  8. oversave
  9. oversaved
  10. oversaver
  11. oversavers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversaucing (page history and authors); oversauce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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