overcooked

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overcooked

1. simple past and past participle of overcook

From over- +‎ cooked.

overcooked (comparative more overcooked, superlative most overcooked)

1. Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

   This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.

   • 2020 June 9, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.

2. Done to excess.

   Synonym: tryhard

   His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.

• overdone

• undercooked
• underdone