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overspice

overspice verb: to add too much spice to (a dish).

Verb

overspice (third-person singular simple present overspices, present participle overspicing, simple past and past participle overspiced)

  1. (transitive) To add too much spice to (a dish).
    • A whiff of nutmeg adds to its distinctive merit, but don't overspice it.1953, June Evans Platt, Sophie Kerr, The Best I Ever Ate: A Practical Home Cook Book, page 56
    • I tend to overspice things, to go for big, peasant flavors.2005, Lela Nargi, Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love ... and the Mothers who Dished it Up for Them, →ISBN, page 76

Forms of overspice

third-person singular presentoverspices
present participleoverspicing
past participleoverspiced
pastoverspiced

Origin of overspice

From over- + spice.

Questions about overspice

What does overspice mean?
Overspice means to add too much spice to (a dish).
What part of speech is overspice?
Overspice is a verb.
What is the past tense of overspice?
The past tense of overspice is overspiced.

Words near overspice in the dictionary

  1. overspending
  2. overspendings
  3. overspenditure
  4. overspends
  5. overspent
  6. overspice
  7. overspiced
  8. overspices
  9. overspicing
  10. overspicy
  11. overspill

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