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overbake (third-person singular simple present overbakes, present participle overbaking, simple past and past participle overbaked)

1. (transitive) To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both.

   Antonym: underbake

   Hypernyms: bake; overcook; overdo

   Coordinate terms: overroast; burn, scorch; overboil, overfry, overbroil

   • 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 1:

     And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.

   • 2007 April 18, “Letters”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

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