overcook

Verb

Verb Forms: overcooked, overcooking, overcooks

• To cook food beyond its optimal state or doneness.
• cook too long
  • "The vegetables were completely overcooked"
• To cook for too long or at too high a temperature.
• To do something to excess; to overdo.

Examples

• Sometimes I overcook my Scrabble strategy, making it too complicated for its own good.
• The runner overcooked it on the first lap, and ended up finishing last.

Antonyms

undercook