"undercook" meaning in English

See undercook in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ [US] Forms: undercooks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊk Etymology: under- + cook Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|cook}} under- + cook Head templates: {{en-noun}} undercook (plural undercooks)
  1. A subordinate cook. Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (subordinate cook): 廚房幫工 (Chinese Mandarin), apukokki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-undercook-en-noun-og5cM4pO Disambiguation of Cooking: 48 34 17

Verb

IPA: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ [US] Forms: undercooks [present, singular, third-person], undercooking [participle, present], undercooked [participle, past], undercooked [past]
Rhymes: -ʊk Etymology: under- + cook Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|cook}} under- + cook Head templates: {{en-verb}} undercook (third-person singular simple present undercooks, present participle undercooking, simple past and past participle undercooked)
  1. (transitive) To cook insufficiently. Tags: transitive Translations (cook insufficiently): 不夠火候 (Chinese Mandarin), 不够火候 (bùgòu huǒhòu) (Chinese Mandarin), jättää raa’aksi (Finnish), kypsentää liian vähän (Finnish), недова́ривать (nedovárivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), недовари́ть (nedovarítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), cocinar insuficientemente (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-undercook-en-verb-97SUc~4y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with under- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 83 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 80 9 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with under-: 29 43 28 Disambiguation of 'cook insufficiently': 100 0
  2. (transitive, figurative) To underdo. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-undercook-en-verb-uvBJX-1Q

Inflected forms

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