undercook
/ʌndɚ.kʊk/
undercook verb: to cook insufficiently.
Verb
undercook (third-person singular simple present undercooks, present participle undercooking, simple past and past participle undercooked)
- To cook insufficiently.
- To underdo.
- Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian
- Antonyms:
- overdo
Noun
undercook (plural undercooks)
- A subordinate cook.
- Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook (all sometimes synonymous)
- Formerly the domain of cooks, undercooks, and scullery maids, it wasn't even a room a householder would lay claim to, much less single out with items of personal interest.2002, Helen Thompson, Anna Kasabian, Cooking spaces: designs for cooking, entertaining, and living, page 67
- Synonyms:
- subcook, sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook
Synonyms of undercook
Antonyms
Forms of undercook
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | undercooks |
| present participle | undercooking |
| past participle | undercooked |
| past | undercooked |
| Noun | |
| plural | undercooks |
Origin of undercook
From under- + cook.
Words formed from undercook
Words that rhyme with undercook
38 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blook
- brooke
- logbook
- stook
- jook
- mistook
- overcook
- shook
- sook
- talk like a book
- took
- abrook
- betook
- bring to book
- by hook and by crook
- by hook or by crook
- checkbook
- cheque book
- chequebook
- Corner Brook
- forsook
- Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook
- gook
- Hughes Brook
- Knook
- log book
- log-book
- Main Brook
- mook
- overtook
- partook
- quook
- schnook
- shnook
- South Brook
- Steady Brook
- uncrook
- undertook
Questions about undercook
- What does undercook mean?
- Undercook means to cook insufficiently.
- What part of speech is undercook?
- Undercook can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce undercook?
- Undercook is pronounced /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ (US).
- What is the past tense of undercook?
- The past tense of undercook is undercooked.
Words near undercook in the dictionary
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