overspice
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[edit]overspice (third-person singular simple present overspices, present participle overspicing, simple past and past participle overspiced)
- (transitive) To add too much spice to (a dish).
- 1953, June Evans Platt, Sophie Kerr, The Best I Ever Ate: A Practical Home Cook Book, page 56:
- A whiff of nutmeg adds to its distinctive merit, but don't overspice it.
- 2005, Lela Nargi, Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love ... and the Mothers who Dished it Up for Them, →ISBN, page 76:
- I tend to overspice things, to go for big, peasant flavors.
- 2014, John Hailman, The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table, →ISBN:
- Mulate's did not overspice the already spicy crawfish, and the accompanying sauce of onions and peppers was among the best I've tasted in years.