to overseason

Examples

• All

• As with most members of my generation, there was a Harlem of the mind, with its music and mulattoes, overcooked and overseasoned soul food, and the politics of the early Thirties... a song.

  Fiction book (1990)

• She always tries to add just the right amount of spices, but sometimes she tends to overseason the soup.

• If you overseason the chicken, it will mask the natural flavors of the meat.

• He realized he had overseasoned the salad dressing after everyone complained it was too salty.

Synonyms

O

to oversalt

vsto overseason

1 3.7

To add too much salt to food so it tastes very salty

is more general, adding too much flavoring rather than only one seasoning

L

to lay on the sauce

vsto overseason

• Informal

8.4

To put a lot of sauce on food or to use too much of something

is literal excess seasoning rather than a broad or metaphorical application

Antonyms

U

unseasoned

1 4.0

Food that has no salt or spices added

How Seasoned

to overseason

1 6.4

to oversalt

1 3.7

to season

43 1.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology