Overcook vs Overdone - What's the difference?
overcook | overdone |
Boiled, baked or roasted too much.
Exaggerated.
* 1997 , Lawrence Norfolk, The Pope's Rhinoceros
As verbs the difference between overcook and overdone
is that overcook is to cook for too long or at too high a temperature while overdone is past participle of lang=en.As an adjective overdone is
boiled, baked or roasted too much.overdone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping.