"undercook" meaning in English

See undercook in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undercook.wav Forms: undercooks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊk Etymology: From 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): apukokki (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-undercook-en-noun-og5cM4pO Disambiguation of Cooking: 48 34 17 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English terms prefixed with under- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with under-: 31 37 32

Verb

IPA: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undercook.wav Forms: undercooks [present, singular, third-person], undercooking [participle, present], undercooked [participle, past], undercooked [past]
Rhymes: -ʊk Etymology: From 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 /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 terms prefixed with under-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 56 20 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with under-: 31 37 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 74 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 72 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 77 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 24 61 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 18 66 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 72 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 13 73 13 Disambiguation of 'cook insufficiently': 99 1
  2. (transitive, figurative) To underdo. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-undercook-en-verb-uvBJX-1Q Categories (other): English terms prefixed with under- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with under-: 31 37 32

Inflected forms

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