"overcook" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /oʊ.vɚ.kʊk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-overcook.wav [Southern-England] Forms: overcooks [present, singular, third-person], overcooking [participle, present], overcooked [participle, past], overcooked [past]
Rhymes: -ʊk Etymology: over- + cook Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|cook|pos=verb}} over- + cook Head templates: {{en-verb}} overcook (third-person singular simple present overcooks, present participle overcooking, simple past and past participle overcooked)
  1. (transitive) To cook for too long or at too high a temperature. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-overcook-en-verb-LnwBaMvx Disambiguation of Cooking: 68 32
  2. (transitive, slang) To do something to excess; to overdo. Tags: slang, transitive Translations (cook for too long — see also overdo): ὑπεροπτάω (huperoptáō) (Ancient Greek), 過頭 (Chinese Mandarin), 过头 (guòtóu) (note: used as an adverb, with a specific cooking verb) (Chinese Mandarin), ylikypsentää (Finnish), surcuire (French), zerkochen (German), verkochen (German), totkochen [colloquial] (German), túlfőz (Hungarian), rozgotować [perfective] (Polish), rozgotowywać [imperfective] (Polish), перевари́ть (perevarítʹ) (english: boiling) [perfective] (Russian), пережа́рить (perežáritʹ) (english: roasting or frying) [perfective] (Russian), recocer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-overcook-en-verb-CRrR-k4i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English verbs prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 95 Disambiguation of English verbs prefixed with over-: 41 59 Disambiguation of 'cook for too long — see also overdo': 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: over-cook

Inflected forms

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