overbake

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overbake

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From over- + bake.

verb overbakes · overbaking · overbaked

transitive To bake too much: for too long, at too high a temperature, or both. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to eat.
Opposite: underbake

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@misc{overbake_2026,
  title = {overbake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overbake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}