overbake

verb

Etymology

From over- + bake.

  1. derived from *bʰeh₃g-
  2. inherited from *bakaną
  3. inherited from *bakan
  4. inherited from bacan
  5. inherited from baken
  6. prefixed as overbake — “over + bake

Definitions

  1. To bake too much

    To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.

    • And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.
    • It’s for an eight-inch pan, and the only thing you need to fear is overbaking; somewhere between 20 and 25 minutes is just about right.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA