oversauce

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ sauce.

Verb

oversauce (third-person singular simple present oversauces, present participle oversaucing, simple past and past participle oversauced)

1. (transitive) To cover (food) with too much sauce.
   • 2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     I am not suggesting that we return to oversauced baked ziti with sausages, mozzarella-laden lasagna or spaghetti under three handball-size meatballs.