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🍲 To add too much salt 🧂 To use excess salt
to oversalt

to oversalt

1 3.7
To add too much salt to food so it tastes very salty
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈsɔlt/
: salpimentar en exceso
  • Like my wife she'd oversalt the shit out of everything -

Examples

  • The soup was lukewarm and oversalted.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The vegetables are overcooked and oversalted.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • That was one of Emily's things: oversaucing and oversalting everything.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I also eat out once a week, and it's hard to find cheap restaurant food that isn't sweet, greasy, and oversalted.

    Blog text (5)

  • I accidentally oversalted the pasta, making it inedible.

  • Make sure to taste the soup often so you don't oversalt it.

  • If you’re not careful, you can easily oversalt a simple dish like scrambled eggs.

Synonyms

to overseason
vsto oversalt
1 6.4

Add too much salt or spice so food tastes too strong

is limited to one basic mineral used for taste rather than many different flavorings

How Salty

to oversalt
1 3.7
to salt
21 1.0
saltless
1 3.4

Surface Forms

oversalt infinitive
oversalted past
oversalted past participle
oversalting present participle
oversalts third person singular

Morphology

oversalt = salt (transparent) = over + salt

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'salt' with the productive prefix 'over-' indicating excess.

Etymology

Oversalt comes from over- meaning 'too much' and salt, so it means to put 'too much' salt on food, making the dish taste too salty.