OVERCOOK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they overcook ... he / she / it overcooks

Past simple: overcooked

Past participle: overcooked

-ing form: overcooking

Meaning:

Cook too long

Example:

The vegetables were completely overcooked

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "overcook" is one way to...):

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The chefs overcook the vegetables