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overdone /əʊvəˈdʌn /adjective1(Of food) overcooked: he sat there chewing his overdone steak...- From the limp way they sat on his fork, though, the prawns looked overdone to me.
- Indeed, the chicken breast and the leg of lamb came out a bit overdone and dry, as perhaps your grandmother's did.
- The mussels were plump and not overdone and the sauce with them very pleasant.
2Done to excess; exaggerated: an overdone show of camaraderie...- I think the rhetoric of secularisation is very much overdone.
- The result is entirely natural; nothing is out of place, nothing is overdone.
- With the whole movie being a flashback, to have a flashback within a flashback seems a little overdone.
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