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overcooked

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From over- + cooked.

  1. Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

    This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.

    If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.

  2. Done to excess.

    His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. simple past and past participle of overcook