overcooked

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Verb

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overcooked

  1. simple past and past participle of overcook

Etymology 2

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From over- +‎ cooked.

Adjective

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overcooked (comparative more overcooked, superlative most overcooked)

  1. Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.
    This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.
    • 2020 June 9, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times[1]:
      If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
  2. Done to excess.
    Synonym: tryhard
    His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.
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