oversauce

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verb

To cover (food) with too much sauce.

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Meanings

verboversauce (third-person singular simple present oversauces, present participle oversaucing, simple past and past participle oversauced)

present singular third person oversauces · participle present oversaucing · participle past oversauced · past oversauced

  1. transitiveTo cover (food) with too much sauce.

    I am not suggesting that we return to oversauced baked ziti with sausages, mozzarella-laden lasagna or spaghetti under three handball-size meatballs.

    2007 October 17, Mark Bittman, “Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + sauce.

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APA

oversauce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversauce

MLA

“oversauce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversauce. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oversauce,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oversauce.

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